After the kings ambassadours were returned, and Tornaie deliuered to the Frenchmen vpon the con|ditions aforesaid, the hostages that were here left for the paiment of the great summes and perfor|mance of the conditions comprised in the league (of the which one was, that if the marriage tooke none effect, then the citie of Tornaie should be redeliuered vpon repaiment of the same summes) the said hosta|ges knew not in what case they stood, but when they knew it, they were verie heauie and sorowfull: how|beit, they dissembled the matter in the best wise they could. The king vsed familiarlie these foure hostages, and on the seuenth daie of Maie prepared a disgui|sing,Preparation for solemne disport. and caused his great chamber at Gréenwich to be staged, and great lights to be set on pillors that were gilt, with basons gilt, and the roofe was couered with blue sattin set full of presses of fine gold and flowers: and vnder was written Iammes, the mea|ning whereof was, that the slower of youth could not be oppressed.

Into this chamber came the king, and the quéene, with the hostages, and there was a goodlie comedie of Plautus plaied; and that doone, there entered into the chamber eight ladies in blacke veluet bordered a|bout with gold, with hoopes from the wast downe|ward,A comedie of Plautus plaied before the king. and sléeues rusted and plited at the elbow, and plaine in the middest, full of cuts, plucked out at eue|rie cut with fine camerike, & tired like the Aegypti|ans verie richlie. And when these ladies had passed a|bout the place, in came eight noble personages in long gownes of taffata set with flowers of gold bul|lion, and vnder that apparell cotes of blacke veluet embrodered with gold all to cut, and plucked out with cuts of white sarcenet, and euerie man had buskins of blacke veluet full of agglets of gold.

Then the eight men dansed with the eight ladies all being visarded, and suddenlie the men cast off their large gownes, and then their vnder apparell was séene. And when all was doone, euerie lord and ladie put off their visards, and then it was knowne that the king, the duke of Suffolke, and the French quéene were there, which were present at the plaie time. On the eight daie of March was a solemne iu|stes,A iustes. the king himselfe, and eight yoong gentlemen based and barded in blacke veluet embrodered with gold; against the duke of Suffolke, and eight of his band, all in white satten with drops of gold. And that daie they all ran excéeding well, which the strangers highlie commended.]