James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902.
February 14
Song: “Shake off your heavy trance”
By Francis Beaumont (1584–1616)
From a Masque written to do honor to the marriage of the Lady Elizabeth and the Count Palatine, February 14, 1613. This daughter of James I. became the mother of the Electress of Hanover, and it is through her that the present Royal Family of England succeeded to the throne.
