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RAG.778.042
23 Jun 1778:21,22 (81)
From the Royal Pennsylvania Gazette, of May 26.
On Monday the 8th instant, an entertainment was given by the
officers of the army, to his Excellency Sir William Howe, .
. . [28 lines describing processions and preparations]
Seven white knights, compleatly armed, attended by their
squires and pages, enter the lists as Champions to the
ladies of the Blended Rose: After parading the field, and
saluting the Pavilion, their heralds proclaims, by sound of
trumpet, that the White Knights are ready to prove by dint
of arms, that their mistresses are the fairest the world can
produce. A second trumpet now sounds, and a herald
advancing on the part of seven Black Knights, insists upon
the superior beauty of the ladies of the burning mountain. .
. [mock battles]
The Knights, one of each party riding together, form
themselves and their attendants into a lane, through which
the company passed to the house prepared for their
reception. . . the dresses of the combatants were in the
highest stile of elegance, and their joining the dance in
them afterwards, had a most pleasing effect.
Soon after tea, the dances began, and about nine o'clock
the fireworks, which were very grand, and played off with
uncommon success.
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