shepherdesses. Pale sea-foam-green bodices and overdresses over white.
White crooks, with pale-green satin streamers fastened to them. They
dance a minuet, and retire to left.

The fourth group enters. Young maids of the court dressed as milkmaids.
Pale-blue bodices and looped-up overdresses over white. Each milkmaid
carries a small white, wooden milking-pail. They dance a minuet, and
retire to left.

The fifth group enters for the Rose Minuet. First come ten little girls
walking two and two. They wear bodices and overdresses of the very
palest pink, flowered with deep-pink roses. Their fichus and petticoats
are white. Each couple carries between them a half-hoop of pink roses.
When they come to a halt the rose hoops, held high, form a rose bower
through which the rose-dancers approach. They are maids of the court,
who wear rose-pink bodices and overdresses over white. Wreaths of tiny
pink rosebuds on their powdered hair. With the little girls with rose
hoops forming figures and groups in the center of the sward, the minuet
dancers go through a minuet which should differ from the other minuets,
its figures being somewhat more elaborate and complicated.

The final figure of this fete should be a huge minuet, with the
rose-dancers in the center of the sward, the other dancers joining in.
After a figure or two, the tempo of the music should change, and the
dancers, headed by those who have done the rose minuet, should march
off the field into the background. First the pink group, then the blue
group, then the green, yellow, and violet groups. With the same march
music still sounding, the Queen and Franklin, followed in stately
fashion by the court, should leave the field, and thus end the scene.