[1631] Text in Furnivall, Early Engl. Poems (Berlin, 1862), printed in Trans. of Philological Soc. 1858, pt. II, pp. 138-48 (from Cotton MS. Vesp. D. IX, f. 179).
[1632] All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, trans. N. Bailey (2nd ed. 1733), pp. 147-55.
[1633] “Nec omnes virgines sunt, mihi crede, quae velum habent.... Nisi fortasse elogium, quod nos hactenus judicavimus esse Virgini matri proprium, ad plures transiit, ut dicantur et a partu virgines ... quin insuper, nec alioqui inter illas virgines sunt omnia virginea ... quia plures inveniuntur, quae mores aemulentur Sapphus, quam quae referant ingenium.” Erasmus, Colloquia, accur. Corn. Schrevelio (Amsterdam, 1693), p. 196.
[1634] Op. cit. pp. 155-7.
[1635] This account of Katherine’s experiences, whether they were due (as the translator suggests) to “the crafty tricks of the monks, who terrify and frighten unexperienced minds into their cloysters by feigned apparitions and visions,” or (as was more probably Erasmus’ meaning) to the mere power of suggestion upon a hysterical girl, should be compared with the numerous accounts of such apparitions seen by novices or intending novices, which are to be found in lives of saints and in edifying exempla. See the examples quoted from Caesarius of Heisterbach, below, pp. [628] sqq.
[1636] For the expenses incidental to taking the veil, see above, pp. [19-20].
[1637] Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, in Sir David Lyndesay’s Poems, ed. Small, Hall and Murray (E.E.T.S. 2nd ed., 1883), pp. 421-3.
[1638] Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits, in Sir David Lyndesay’s Poems, ed. Small, Hall and Murray (E.E.T.S. 2nd ed., 1883), p. 506.
[1639] Ib. p. 514.
[1640] Ib. p. 521.