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Ben Jonson wrote Masque of Blackness and Masque of Beauty, both of which Lady Mary Wroth performed in along with Queen Anne and the rest of her ladies in waiting. Below is a link to a YouTube video which has music from a different masque called the Masque of Cupid and Bacchus, but I included it here to let you all get a taste of what the music from that era might have sounded like.

[|The Masque of Cupid and Bacchus]

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