The company embarked upon the Meuse, in a fleet of gaily-scarfed; and painted vessels, many of which were filled with musicians.

Margaret reclined in her gilded barge, under a richly embroidered canopy.

A fairer and falser Queen than "Egypt," had bewitched the famous youth who had triumphed not, lost the world, beneath the heights of Actium.

The revellers landed on the island, where the banquet was already spread within a spacious bower of ivy, and beneath umbrageous elms.

The dance upon the sward was protracted to a late hour, and the summer stars had been long in the sky when the company returned to their barges.
Don John, more than ever enthralled by the bride of St.Bartholomew, knew not that her sole purpose in visiting his dominion had been to corrupt his servants and to undermine his authority.