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JONES'S DESIGNS FOR THE MASQUES 



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FIG. 43. Masque by Inigo Jones. 



From the Burlington-Devonshire Collection at the R.I.B.A. 



of the period actually exhibited. The artist's hand instinctively sought 

 a classic expression. 



Jones, indeed, designed most of the masques presented at court 

 during the reigns of James I. and his son, and collaborated with 

 several of the different poets who wrote the words of these fanciful 

 plays ; with Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniell, Thomas Campion, George 

 Chapman, and Aurelian Townshend. One of his efforts was less 

 successful than could have been wished, although it was for an occasion 

 when expectation was particularly high the masque on "Twelfth Night 

 1618, when the prince was to take a part for the first time. Gossiping 



