An anthology performed at

Mottisfont Abbey (Rose Garden / Music Room)

on

7^th, 8^th, 14^th, 15^th, & 21^st June 1996
with Gala Night on Saturday 22^nd June

Also possibly on Sunday 23^rd?

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For the Maskers
Readers:	Ken Spencer,   Mollie Manns,   Julie Baker,   Sheana Carrington,   Ben O'Donohoe,   David Pike,   Frances Apsey
Musicians:	Belinda Drew,   Michael Patterson
Singers:	Julie Baker,   Ben O'Donohoe,   David Jupp
Together with	The Romsey Chamber Singers
Directed by	Sonia Morris
Technical Director	Ron Tillyer

For your further delight - A TUDOR RECIPE

CONSERVE OF ROSES

Take Roses at your pleasure, put them to a boyle in faire water, having regard to the quantity; for if you have many Roses you may take more water, if fewer, the lesse water will serve: the which you shall boyle at the least three or foure houres, even as you would boile a piece of meate, untill in the eating they be very tender, at which time, the Roses will lose their colour, that you would thinke your labour lost, and the thing spoiled. But proceed for though the Roses have lost their colour, the water hath gotten the tincture thereof; then shall you adde unto one pound of Roses, four pound of fine sugar in pure pouder, and so according to the rest of the Roses. Thus shall you let them bolye gently after the sugar is put therto; continually stirring it with a woodden Spatula untill it be cold, whereof one pound weight is worth sex pound of the crude or raw conserve, as well for the vertues and goodnesse in taste, as also for the beautifull colour.

Grateful acknowledgement is due to the following authors:
Gertrude Stein	Harry Wheatcroft
William Shakespeare	John Keats
H.L.V. Fletcher	Dorothy Parker
R.L. Stevenson	Lewis Carroll
William Paul	Brian Patten
Nicholas Culpeper	Flora Thompson
Sappho of Lesbos(C.600 B.C.)	E. Dowson
Vita Sackville-West	Miss Read
Ausonius (C.380 A.D.)	Graham Stewart-Thomas
The Countryman's Recreation (1654)	Austin Dobson
The Art of Coarse Gardening	S. Hughes
and Anon!