[782] "Roberd of Brunne's Handlyng Synne (written a.d. 1303), with the French treatise on which it is founded, 'Le Manuel des Pechiez,' by William de Wadington," ed. Furnivall, Roxburghe Club, 1862, 4to, pp. 146 ff.
Un autre folie apert
Unt les fols clercs contrové,
Qe "miracles" sunt apelé;
Lur faces unt la déguisé
Par visers, li forsené.
Fere poent representement,
Mes qe ceo seit chastement
En office de seint église
Quant hom fet la Deu servise,
Cum Jesu Crist le fiz Dee
En sepulcre esteit posé,
Et la resurrectiun
Pur plus aver devociun.
Ki en lur jus se délitera,
Chivals on harneis les aprestera.
Vesture ou autre ournement,
Sachez il fet folement.
Si vestemens seient dediez,
Plus grant d'assez est le pechez;
Si prestre ou clerc les ust presté
Bien dust estre chaustié.
[786] Toulmin Smith, "English Gilds," London, 1870, E.E.T.S., p. 139.
[787] The principal monuments of the English religious stage are the following: "Chester Plays," ed. Th. Wright, Shakespeare Society, 1843-7, 2 vols., 8vo (seem to have been adapted from the French, perhaps from an Anglo-Norman original, not recovered yet).
"The Pageant of the Company of Sheremen and Taylors in Coventry ... together with other Pageants," ed. Th. Sharp, Coventry, 1817, 4to. By the same: "A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries anciently performed at Coventry ... to which are added the Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors Company," Coventry, 1825, 4to (illustrated).