[466] Anthony a Wood in Steven's Monast. vol. i. p. 133.
[467] Script. Brit. p. 286.
[468] Le Bœuf gives an instance of one being represented as early as the eleventh century, in which Virgil was introduced. Hallam's Lit. of Europe, vol. i. p. 295. The case of Geoffry of St. Albans is well known, and I have already mentioned it.
[469] MS. Cottonian Vespasian, D. viii. fo. 1. Codex Chart. 225 folios, written in the fifteenth century. Sir W. Dugdale, in his Hist. of Warwick, p. 116, mentions this volume; and Stevens, in his Monast. has printed a portion of it. Mr. Halliwell has printed them with much care and accuracy.
[470] MS. Cottonian Vitel. E. 5. Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 326.
[471] The original was written in 1494.
[472] Ship of Fooles, folio 1570, Imprynted by Cawood, fol. 1.
