Chapter XVII
Ordinance against out-door Revelry—Marriage of a Lord of Misrule—Mummers and Mumming—Country Mummers—Early Play—Two modern Plays 125
Chapter XVIII
A Christmas jest—Ben Jonson’s Masque of Christmas—Milton’s Masque of Comus—Queen Elizabeth and the Masters of Defence 138
Chapter XIX
The Lord of Misrule—The “Emperor” and “King” at Oxford—Dignity of the Office—Its abolition in the City of London—The functions of a Lord of Misrule—Christmas at the Temple—A grand Christmas there 143