Love's Labors Lost

Love's Labors Lost 1579

references to Elizabeth's progress in the Eastern counties in 1578,
entertainment at Wanstead, Essex

Armado is the melancholy Don John, with his mustachio
Dull is Antonio de Guines
Costard is Duke of Arschot, partial anagram
Jaquenetta is Mary daughter of James
Moth is De la Motte
Plantain is Palatinate
Sir Nathaniel is the Prince of Orange
Rosaline is Anne Vavasour
Boyet is Knyvet

Sept. 4, 1578, an Act of the Privy Council for carts to carry the Earl of Oxford's "stuff"

Mask of June 11 at Cambridge, of Muscovites, 2 days after Oxford met with Elizabeth's ambassador, Randolph, ambasssador to Muscovy

"honorificabilitudinitibus"
Latin address to the queen
Saffron Walden - "Gabriel Harvey met the court at Audley End and presneted the queen and her courtiers with a series of Latin verses he had written in her honor..portion addressed to Oxford:..."O thou hero worthy of renown, throw away the insignificant pen, throw away bloodless books, and writings that serve no useful purpose: now must the sword be brought into play, Now is the time for thee to sharpen the spear and handle great engines of war."...page 156ff, Ward's 17th earl of Oxford
"new-fangled", "perjury", "vizard", and "hypocrisy" are all common words in LLL
The "Worthies" of Norwich on August 16, 1578
4th of August, the death of the King of Portugal

Marguerite de Valois's dowry, her journey to Spa (to negotiate in secret for her brother Alencon) and later south to her husband's domain
"gingerbread"
"dunghill" is Mons. a hill town citadel