[814] See, for instance, "Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages," ed. G. Paris and U. Robert, Société des Anciens Textes, 1876-91, 6 vols. 8vo.
[815] In Méon's edition, Paris, 1813, vol. ii. pp. 326 ff.
[816] Plays of this kind were written (without speaking of many anonyms) by Medwall: "A goodly Enterlude of Nature," 1538, fol.; by Skelton, "Magnyfycence," 1531, fol.; by Ingelend, "A pretie Enterlude called the Disobedient Child," printed about 1550: by John Bale, "A comedye concernynge thie Lawes," London, 1538, 8vo (against the Catholics); all of them lived under Henry VIII., &c. The two earliest English moralities extant are "The Pride of Life" (in the "Account Roll of the priory of the Holy Trinity," Dublin, ed. J. Mills, Dublin, 1891, 8vo), and the "Castle of Perseverance" (an edition is being prepared, 1894, by Mr. Pollard for the Early English Text Society), both of the fifteenth century; a rough sketch showing the arrangement of the representation of the "Castle" has been published by Sharp, "A Dissertation on the Pageants at Coventry," plate 2.
[817] "Interlude of the four Elements," London, 1510(?), 8vo.
[818] See, for example, the mournful passages in the "Disobedient Child," the "Triall of Treasure," London, 1567, 4to, and especially in "Everyman," ed. Goedeke, Hanover, 1865, 8vo, written at the beginning of the reign of Henry VIII.
[819] Song of the Clown in "Twelfth Night," iv. 3.
[820] "Pantagruel," iii. 37.
[821] Furnivall, "Digby Mysteries," p. xxvii.
[822] "York Plays," p. xvi.
[823] Petit de Julleville, "Les Mystères," 1880, vol. i. pp. 423 ff.