Cirrus@Austlit

Epigraph:

'And there were dresses splendid and fantastical,

Masks of all times and nations, Turks and Jews,

And harlequins and clowns, with feats gymnastical,

Greeks, Homans, Yankee-doodles, and Hindoos.'

Byron

'All sorts of people there were seen together,

All sorts of characters, all sorts of dresses;

The fool with the fox tail and peacock's feather,

Pilgrims and penitents, and grave burgesses;

The country people with their coats of leather,

Grooms, archers, varlets, falconers, and yeomen,

Damsels, and waiting maids, and waiting women.'

Frere.