transient loveliness," featuring "noble dancers in their crimson satin and white, with herons' feathers waving and jewels flashing, as they made their graceful movements in the torchlight." Three surviving portraits of women in masque costume by John de Critz may depict those who performed as Powers of Juno. These courtiers were; Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, Susan Vere, Countess of Montgomery, Elizabeth Sidney, Countess of Rutland, Lady Knollys, Lady Berkeley, Dorothy Hastings, Blanche Somerset, and Cecily Sackville. The Countess of Rutland bought some items of her costume including a coronet, and gave £80 to Anne of Denmark's usher Zachary Bethell towards the costs of staging the masque. The Barriers The following day saw the performance of the second portion of the entertainment, the Barriers, a stylized ritual combat presented in the Banqueting House at Whitehall. Two women dressed in identical blue and white costumes with palm-leaf crowns purported to be Truth. One spoke in favour of the institution of marriage, and the second that it enslaved women. Next sixteen pairs knights contested with swords and pikes to defend these propositions. Peace and amity were restored by an angel emerging from a blaze of light. The angel brought the true figure of Truth, the advocate of marriage who had spoken first. The Duke of Lennox was chieftain of the victorious combatants, fighting against Lord Sussex's team. Publication The masque was published later in 1606, in an edition printed by Valentine Simmes for the bookseller Thomas Thorpe – the first of Jonson's masques to be issued in print. The volume contains a preface in which Jonson envisions the performance of a masque as its body, but the meaning of the masque (as recorded in its text) as its soul. The work was printed again when included in the first folio collection of Jonson's works in 1616. Its full title in the latter text is Hymenaei, or The Solemnities of Masque and Barriers at a Marriage. The marriage The marriage celebrated by the masque had been arranged by King James I, perhaps at the suggestion of Robert Cecil the Lord Treasurer, as a means of settling the rivalry of the Devereux and Howard families. Combatants in the Barriers fighting for virginity were dressed in the colours of the executed Earl of Essex and several had been knighted in his service, while those defending marriage included members of the Howard family and their allies.