 A descriptive narrative of a processional masque is the masque of the Seven Deadly Sins in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" (Book i, Canto IV).A particularly elaborate masque, performed over the course of two weeks for Queen Elizabeth, is described in the 1821 novel "Kenilworth", by Sir Walter Scott.Later, in the court of James I, narrative elements of the masque became more significant.