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These are the kinds of names that would have been used in plays and masques of the time. The fancy names were inspired by the hugely popular romantic novels of the period. These stories usually featured knights in armor rescuing damsels in distress. So the names and terms used in Conspiracy are basically poetic names for characters and things in the play. Thus the Black Knight of Melancholy would have simply been a sad knight who always wore black, the Barque Perilous would have been a dangerous ship, etc.ambler—a horse that moves along very slowlyaqua vitae—brandy Arcadia—a paradisal location often featured in Greek pastoral poetrybanket—an alternative word for a banquetbattledore—a light flat bat or racquetBedlam—the major asylum for the insane in London during Elizabethan times—the name came from Bethlehem HospitalBergomask—a rustic dancebiggin cap—a child's hatbodice—the top part of a woman's dressbrocade—a rich, gold-embroidered fabricbum—bottomcant—slangcaparison—decorative trappings for a horsecavalcade—a procession on horsebackChamberer—a servant of the Queen who cleaned her chamber for her—which the Maids of Honour and Ladies-in-Waiting, of course, could not be expected to doCloth of Estate—a kind of awning that went over the Queen's chair to indicate that she was the Queencloth of silver/gold—cloth, woven from silk thread that had been, wrapped in fine gold or silver wirecomfrey—an herbcoppice—a thicket of trees, or a copsedamask—a beautiful, self-patterned silk cloth woven in Flanders.

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