As soon as the guests were seated, an admirable concert of instrumental music began.

Spinola walked up and down providing for the comforts of his company, the Duke of Aumale stood behind the two princesses to entertain them with conversation, Don Luis Velasco served the Princess of Conde with plates, handed her the dishes, the wine, the napkins, while Bucquoy and Visconti in like manner waited upon the Princess of Orange; other nobles attending to the other ladies.
Forty-eight pages in white, yellow, and red scarves brought and removed the dishes.

The dinner, of courses innumerable, lasted two hours and a half, and the ladies, being thus fortified for the more serious business of the evening, were led to the tiring-rooms while the hall was made ready for dancing.

The ball was opened by the Princess of Conde and Spinola, and lasted until two in the morning.

As the apartment grew warm, two of the pages went about with long staves and broke all the windows until not a single pane of glass remained.