“Ich can nat tabre ne trompe · ne telle faire gestes,
Farten ne fithelen · at festes, ne harpen,
Japen ne jogelen · ne gentelliche pipe,
Nother sailen ne sautrien · ne singe with the giterne.”
(“Piers Plowman,” ed. Skeat, Text C, passus xvi. l. 205.)
[295] “Loci e libro veritatum; Passages selected from Gascoigne’s Theological Dictionary” (1403–48), ed. Thorold Rogers, Oxford, 1881, p. 144.
[296] For instance, MS. Add. 29704, fol. 11. This particular illumination seems to be of the fourteenth century.
[297] Devon’s “Issues of the Exchequer,” p. 212.
[298] Phillip Stubbes’ “Anatomy of Abuses,” ed. F. J. Furnivall, New Shakspere Society, 1877–79, pp. 171, 172. Stubbes’ opinion was shared by all the religious writers or moralists of the sixteenth century.
[299] All the extracts here are from the “House of Fame,” book iii. “Complete Works,” ed. Skeat, Oxford, 1894, vol. iii. pp. 33 ff.