[762] Donatus (ed. Wessner, i. 22), Excerpta de Comoedia; cf. Hamlet, III. ii. 23, also Gosson's criticism of Lodge's scholarship on this point in App. C, No. xxx.
[763] W. H. Woodward, Studies in Education during the Age of the Renaissance, 218; C. H. Herford, Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century, 101.
[764] Mediaeval Stage, ii. 216.
[765] Extract in App. C, No. v. Symmes, 31, cites Peter Martyr Vermigli as representing the same point of view, but the passage on plays in his In librum Iudicum Commentarii (1563), c. 14, reproduced in his Loci Communes (1563), Classis ii, c. 12, is not very lucid.
[766] J. E. Gillet (M. L. A. xxxiv. 465), citing e.g. an utterance of 1530, 'Et ego non illibenter viderem gesta Christi in scholis puerorum ludis seu comoediis latine et germanice rite ac pure compositis repraesentari propter rei memoriam et affectum iunioribus augendum'.
[767] Mediaeval Stage, ii. 111.
[768] Robert Laneham's Letter (ed. Furnivall), 27.
[769] Mediaeval Stage, ii. 224, 446.
[770] Mediaeval Stage, ii. 222. The passage quoted is from the Epistel Exhortatorye of an Inglyshe Christian (1544), written under the pseudonym of Henry Stalbridge. Foxe, Book of Martyrs, vi. 57, says of Bishop Gardiner, 'He thwarteth and wrangleth much against players, printers, preachers. And no marvel why: for he seeth these three things to be set up of God, as a triple bulwark against the triple crown of the Pope to bring him down; as, God be praised, they have done meetly well already.'
[771] Cf. ch. v.