The Entertainment at Britain's Burse is a masque (kind of play) written by Ben Jonson in 1609 and rediscovered in 1997.
[1] It was commissioned by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in celebration of the opening of the "New Exchange" (essentially a shopping mall),[2] on 11 April 1609.
[4][5] It is an unusual Jonson text because it seems to be in celebration of consumer culture while so many of his other plays and poems condemn it—though there might be some satire intended.
The masque begins with "The Key Keeper" who welcomes a "Maiestie" and "roiall lady", King James and the queen, Anne of Denmark, to the New Exchange.
Anne of Denmark was presented with a silver plaque, James had a cabinet, Prince Henry received a caparison for a horse, and courtiers were given rings.