Et y verriés de ces gallans
Oyseux qui tavernes poursuivent,
Gays et jolis.”
“Le Livre de la mutacion de fortune,” Bk. iii, MS. Fr. 603, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Christine de Pisan’s “Œuvres poétiques,” are being published by the “Société de Anciens textes Français,” ed. Maurice Roy, 1886 ff.
[155] “Elynour Rummynge.” “Poetical Works of John Skelton,” ed. Dyce, 1843, vol. i. p. 95.
[156] Jurors find in 1375 that the bridge in the midst of the causey between Brant Broughton and Lincoln was primarily made “by a certain hermit after the first pestilence,” and consisted “in a board placed above the ford” which had to be waded through: “Jurati dicunt supra sacramentum suum . . . quod pons predictus post primam pestilenciam ibidem primo per quendam heremitum factus fuit, ponendo tabulam ultra quoddam vadum in medio calceti predicti.” Complete text in C. T. Flower, “Public Works in Mediæval Law,” Selden Society, 1915, i. 263.
[157] “Roman de Renart,” Branch viii. ed. Martin i. p. 267. On the outcome of this confession, see further, Part iii. chap. iii.
[158] The son of a mayor of York; d. about 1235. Miracles are said to have been worked at the Knaresborough hermitage, Yorkshire, where he had lived and was buried.
[159] “English Prose Treaties,” ed. Perry, E.E.T.S., 1866, pp. xv, xvi. Rolle died in 1349.
[160] Ibid. p. 5.