title: The Characters of Two Royal Masques
title_page_title: THE CHARACTERS of Two royall Masques. The one of BLACKNESSE, The other of BEAVTIE.
title_page_author: and Inuented by B<small>EN</small>: I<small>ONSON</small>.
title_page_performance: <i>personated</i> By the most magnificent of Queenes ANNE Queene of great  Britaine, &c. <i>With her honorable Ladyes</i>, 1605. <i>and</i> 1608. <i>at  White-hall</i>:
title-page_latin_motto: Ouid.—— <i>Salue festa dies, meliorq</i>[<i>ue</i>]<i> reuertere semper</i>.
title_page_imprint: Imprinted at London for <i>Thomas Thorp</i>, and are to be sold at the signe of the Tigers head in Paules Church-yard.
stationer_entries_in_register: Apr 21, 1608: Entered to Thomas Thorpe: "The. Characters of Twoo Royall Maskes Invented by Ben. Iohnson".
stationer_additional_notes: The bookseller attribution is from STC.
transcript_modern_spelling: The characters of two royal masques the one of blackness the other of beauty personated by the most magnificent of Queens Anne Queen of Great Britain etc. with her honorable ladies 1605 and 1608 at Whitehall and invented by Ben Jonson Ovid Salve festa dies meliorque revertere semper imprinted at London for Thomas Thorpe and are to be sold at the sign of the Tiger's head in Paul's Churchyard 