CHAPTER XIII.—MASKING, THE MUMMERS’ PLAY, THE FEAST OF FOOLS, AND THE BOY BISHOP
[ 1 .] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 390 f.
[ 2 .] The Works Of Ben Jonson, ed. by Barry Cornwall (London, 1838), 600.
[ 3 .] Shakespeare, “Henry VIII.,” Act I. Sc. IV.
[ 4 .] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 403 f.
[ 5 .] Ibid. i. 227, 402.
[ 6 .] Ibid. i. 402. Cf. Burne and Jackson, 410.
[ 7 .] For a bibliography of texts of the mummers’ plays see Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 205 f.[383]
[ 8 .] This account of the plays and dances is based upon Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 182 f. (chapters ix. and x.).
[ 9 .] Tacitus, “Germania,” cap. xxiv. (Eng. Trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe, Oxford, 1908).
[ 10.] Cf. Harrison, “Themis,” 43 f.
[ 11.] Professor Gilbert Murray in “Themis,” 341 f.
[ 12.] Harrison, “Themis,” 232.
[ 13.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 226.
[ 14.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 192, 213 f.
[ 15.] Ibid. i. 220 f.
[ 16.] Lawson, 223 f.
[ 17.] Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. x. 482.
[ 18.] This account of the Feast of Fools and the Boy Bishop is mainly derived from Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 274-371, and from Mr. A. F. Leach's article, “The Schoolboys’ Feast,” in “The Fortnightly Review” (London), vol. lix., 1896, 128 f.
[ 19.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 294.
[ 20.] Full text in Chambers, “M. S.,” ii. 280 f.
[ 21.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 372 f.
[ 22.] “Two Sermons preached by the Boy Bishop at St. Paul's,” ed. by J. G. Nichols, with an Introduction by E. F. Rimbault (London, printed for the Camden Society, 1875).
[ 23.] Ibid. 3.
[ 24.] Quoted by F. J. Snell, “The Customs Of Old England” (London, 1911), 44.
[ 25.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 366.
[ 26.] J. Aubrey, “Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme” (1686-7), ed. by J. Britten (London, 1881), 40 f.
[ 27.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 350.
[ 28.] Feilberg, ii. 254.