On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> Idle question on the lines:
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>> While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
>> Sleep's leaden spells remove.
>>
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> Revels and masques are quite specific types of events, but courtly
> sights
> sounds vague. Does anyone here know enough about English Renaissance
> customs to say whether a "courtly sight" is something as definite as
> a revel
> or masque, or is it as vague as it sounds to a modern reader?
Idle, ignorant, but not facetious answer: Any chance a "courtly sight"
was a sighting? We do know that the appearance at court of particular
memebers of the usual gang was ever a major event. . . .
Susan Holahan
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