The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Vol. 1 of 3 - Samuel Johnson

Excerpt from The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Vol. 1 of 3: With Critical Observations on Their Works
It has nevertheless its foundation in reality. The Earl of Bridgewater being President of Wales in the year 1634, had his residence at Ludlow-castle in Shropshire, at which time Lord Brackly and Mr. Egerton, his sons, and Lady Alice Egerton, his daughter, passing through a place called the Hay-wood forest, or Haywood in Herefordshire, were benighted, and the lady for a short time lost: this accident being related to their father upon their arrival at his castle, Milton, at the request of his friend Henry Lawes, who taught musick in the family, wrote this masque. Lawes set it to musick, and it was acted on Michaelmas night; the two brothers, the young lady, and Lawes himself, bearing each a part in the representation.
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