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On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Jon Corelis wrote: > Idle question on the lines: > >> While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights >> Sleep's leaden spells remove. >> > > 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 >