The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [620] Dugd. Monast. vol. i. fol. 355.

[ [621] Collection of Old Ballads, London, 1723.

[ [622] Chaucer, in the Romance of the Rose, where the title Roy des Ribaulx occurs in the original, translates it "king of harlotes."

[ [623] Origines des Dignitez et Magistrats de France, fol. 43.

[ [624] Will. Malmsb. p. 93, col. 1.

[ [625] Johan. Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curial. lib. i. cap. 8; lib. iii. cap. 7. Matt. Paris, in Vit. Hen. III. sub an. 1251, &c.

[ [626] "Infinitum histrionum et joculatorum multitudinem, sine cibo et muneribus, va cuam et mœrentum abire permisit." Chron. Virtziburg.

[ [627] Origine de la Langue et Poësie Françoise, lib. i. cap. 4.

[ [628] Harl. MS. 2252.

[ [629] All idleness I hate.