[2] According to Burel, performers with wearing black masks or visards and paint represented the "Moirs of the Inds".
They had come to salute Scotland's new queen and offer e their "most willing minds" to her service:Into the service of our Queene,Thay offert thair maist willing mynds,Thir ar the Moirs of quhom I mene,Quha dois inhabit in the Ynds;Leving thair land and dwelling place,For to do honour to hir Grace.
His translation of a medieval verse drama Pamphilus based on works of Ovid seems to address the events of 1591, when the young courtier Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox was advised to end his relationship with Lilias Ruthven.
[6] In 1601 Francis Mowbray wrote to Sir Robert Cecil from Edinburgh complaining about John Burrell who was in London and had ridiculed him in verse and had a sonnet against him published.
Mowbray enclosed a copy of the printed poem (which survives) and wanted the poet put in prison.