[59] In Wisdom he may be regarded as Vice and Devil (Lucifer) rolled into one; in Everyman he is probably represented by the friends who desert the hero in time of need; in the Disobedient Child he is concrete as the prodigal son.

[60] Furnivall, Digby Plays, Forewords, xiii.

[61] Never 'Morality' to our ancestors; that is a futile borrowing from the French.

[62] Wisdom has only Lucifer; Nature has only Sensuality and minor Vices; Pride of Life had Devils in all probability, but no Vice, for Mirth is not one; Everyman has neither.

[63] I see no reason for assuming with Professor Brandl (Quellen u. Forschungen, XXVIII.) that the loss of the navy bound for Ireland, II. 336-363, has reference to the destruction of the Regent by the French, 1512.

[64] For some of these see Quadrio, Della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poesia, Vol. III., Lib. II., 53 et seq.

[65] For the substance of this paragraph see the histories of Klein, Herford, and Creizenach.

[66] E. Dr. Po., I. 107, from Gibson's Accounts.

[67] Warton, H. Eng. Po. (1871), IV. 323.

[68] Herford, Lit. Rel., pp. 107-108.