“Of these frer mynours me thenkes moch wonder,
That waxen are thus hauteyn, that som tyme weren under.”
Thomas Wright’s “Political Poems and Songs,” 1859, vol. i. p. 268, Rolls Series.
[411] “Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede,” ed. Skeat, 1867, Early English Text Society, pp. 7–9; written about 1394; author unknown, the same possibly who composed “The Plowman’s Tale,” e.g. in Wright’s “Political Poems,” both works strongly influenced by Langland’s “Visions.”
[412] “Liber de adventu Minorum,” in “Monumenta Franciscana,” p. 52.
[413] Grammar, logic, rhetoric—Arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.
[414] “Select English Works,” vol. iii. p. 382. A satire of the fourteenth century states in the same way:
“Isti fratres prædicant per villas et forum
Quod si mortem gustet quis in habitu minorum
Non intrabit postea locum tormentorum,