'Beams' and 'sunbeams' are favourite words with Davies: so too 'mirror.' (4) "Time weare very vngratefull, if it should not euer stand still, to serue and preserue, cherish and delight her, that is the glory of her time, and makes the Time happy wherein she liueth" (_Ibid_ p. 251). Cf. II. st. 3, ll. 1-3. "Right glad am I that now I live: Even in these days whereto you give Great happiness and glory." (5) "What if she make thee a contynewell holy-day, she makes me [Place] a perpetuall sanctuary" (_Ibid_ p. 251). Cf. IV., st. 1:-- "Each day of time, sweet moneth of May, Love makes a solemne holy-day." (6) "Doth not the presence of a Prince make a Cottage a Court, and the presence of the Gods make euery place Heaven?" (_Ibid_ pp. 251-2). Cf. Dedication of "Nosce Teipsum":-- "Stay long (sweet spirit) ere thou to Heauen depart, Which makest each place a heauen wherein thou art." In the Verse (pp. 253-4) there are abundant parallels. I must content myself with references. With the 1st stanza "Beauties rose, and vertues booke, &c." compare Hymnes to Astræa VII., st. 3: XVII., st. 2-3 and the "Contention" (_ad. fin._) and XIII. st. 2: XV. st. 2. Also IV. last 2 lines: VII. st. 3. ll. 1-3: X. last 4 lines. Similar results are found on a comparison of the "Entertainment" with the "Dialogue between a Gentleman Usher and a Poet" (Fuller Worthies' Library edn. of Davies' Poems: pp. 15-21.) I have accordingly given the whole "Entertainment" as belonging to Sir John Davies. It is to be regretted that the Satyrs Verses are unaccompanied by the rest of the Masque to which apparently they belong. Harefield has the further light of glory on it of having been the scene of Milton's "Arcades" and of the famous elm-aisle celebrated by him in imperishable verse. The Countess of Derby, afterwards the Lord Keeper's third wife, was the early friend of Spenser and of Milton, and of all her eminent literary contemporaries.[53] [Footnote 53: As for much more I am indebted to Dr. Brinsley Nicholson (as before) for most of the details of the above statement. He has likewise favoured me with these additional illustrations of a refrain in the introduction to the "Lottery." In the Queen's Entertainment at Cawdray (Lord Montacute's), in 1591, an angler says, "Madame, it is an olde saying, There is no fishing to the sea nor service to the King: but it holdes when the sea is calme and the King vertuous" (Nichols' Progresses). Greene also uses it in his James IV., when the schemer who has gained by flattering the King, says (I. 2) "Now may I say as many often sing, No fishing to the sea nor service to a King."