[ [600] Book ii. chap. 9.

[ [601] Lib. iv. sat. i.

[ [602] Stow's Survey of Lond. p. 84 and 85

[ [603] Pass. xi.

[ [604] See p. [184].

[ [605] Benedict. Abbas, sub an. 1190. Hoveden writes thus: "Cantores et joculatores de illo canerent in plateis; ut jam dicebatur ubique quod non erat talis in orbe;" declaring every where that his equal was not in the world. Hist. p. 103.

[ [606] Orderic. Vitalis, Eccles. Hist. pp. 880, 881.

[ [607] The author uses these words: "Intravit quædam mulier ornata histrionali habitu, equum bonum insidens histrionaliter phaleratum, quæ mensas more histrionem circuivit," &c. Tho. Walsingham, Hist. Anglæ sub an. 1317, p. 85.

[ [608] Non esse moris domus regiæ histriones ab ingressu quemlibet prohibere.

[ [609] Essay upon Ancient Minstrels, in Reliques of Ancient Poetry.