[39] British Museum, Add. Mss. 33,418.
[40] Repr. Manly, Specimens from Folk Lore Journal, VII. 338-353.
[41] Stow speaks of mummers, "with black visors, not amiable, as if legates from some foreign prince."
[42] Cf. "Two balls (i.e. bulls) from yonder mountain have laid me quite low," with Golden Legend, vol. IV., p. 103, Temple Classics ed. There is no such close similarity in the language of the Early South English Legendary, Laud Ms., Seint Ieme, and Seint George (Horstmann, Ed. E.E.T.S., 1887).
[43] Schauspiele d. engl. Komödianten, Einl. XCIV.
[44] L. W. Cushman, The Devil and the Vice, Halle a. S., 1900.
[45] I remember only Herod and Antichrist outside of the Digby plays and of the Cornwall cycle (where the devils act as chorus and carry off everything in sight), and the souls of those already damned who are claimed by the devils of the Towneley.
[46] Whether the Rewfyn and Leyon of the Co. were Devils, I have my doubts.
[47] Furnivall, Digby Plays, p. 43; ten Brink, Gesch. engl. Lit., II. 320, and Sharp's Dissertation on the Co. Mysteries, 1825.
[48] In the Nigromansir, and the Shipwrights' Play of Newcastle.