[1621] See e.g. Rabelais, Gargantua, cap. LII (Comment Gargantua fit bastir pour le moine l’abbaye de Theleme).

[1622] Text in Dits et Contes de Badouin de Condé et de son fils Jean de Condé, pub. par Aug. Scheler, Ac. Roy. de Belgique, Brussels, 1866-7, III, No. XXXVII, pp. 1-48. The portion of the poem containing the lawsuit is translated in part into modern French by Le Grand d’Aussy, in Fabliaux et Contes, ed. Le Grand d’Aussy et Renouard, 1829, I, pp. 326-36.

[1623] A convenient collection of these is summarised in an excellent little book by Ch.-V. Langlois, entitled La Vie en France au Moyen Age d’après quelques Moralistes du Temps (2me éd. 1911).

[1624] The text of both La Bible Guiot and La Bible au Seigneur de Berzé is printed in Fabliaux et Contes, ed. Barbazon-Méon, t. II (Paris, 1808), and both are fully analysed, with extracts in Langlois, op. cit. pp. 30-88. The text of La Bible Guiot is also printed in San Marte, Parcival Studien (Halle, 1861), with a translation into German verse.

[1625] Les Lamentations de Matheolus, pub. A. G. Van Hamel (Bib. de l’Ecole des Chartes, 1892, t. I, pp. 89-90). See also the analysis in Langlois, op. cit. pp. 223-75, especially p. 248.

[1626] Langlois, op. cit. pp. 248-9, Note 2.

[1627] Poésies de Gilles li Muisis, pub. Kervyn de Lettenhove (Louvain, 1882), t. I, pp. 209-36. The whole register is analysed in Langlois, op. cit. pp. 305-53.

[1628] See above, p. [298].

[1629] See Vox Clamantis, Lib. IV, ll. 578-676 in The Complete Works of John Gower, ed. G. C. Macaulay, Latin Works (1902), pp. 181-5. The same subject is treated more shortly by Gower in his Mirour de l’Omne, ll. 9157-68. (Ib. French Works, p. 106.)

[1630] Compare the priestly logic of Alvar Pelayo who enumerates the abuse of the confessional among the habitual sins of women! De Planctu Ecclesiae, Lib. II, Art. 45, n. 84. (See Lea, Hist. of Sacerdotal Celibacy, I, 435-6 for this and other medieval complaints of the corruption of nuns by their confessors.)