 Part of the problem is that only texts survive complete; there is no complete music, only fragments, so no authoritative performance can be made without interpretive invention.There is a detailed, humorous and malicious account by Sir John Harington of a 1606 masque of Solomon and Sheba.However he was not so much concerned with the masque itself as with the notoriously heavy drinking at the Court of King James I; " the entertainment went forward, and most of the presenters went backward, or fell down, wine did so occupy their upper chambers".