FOOTNOTES:

[89] The full title of this play is rather instructive:—"Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte: a dyaloge betwen the marchaunt, the knyght & the plowman dysputyng who is a verey gentylman & who is a noble man and how men shuld come to auctoryte, compiled in maner of an enterlude with divers toys & gestis addyd therto to make mery pastyme and disport."

[90] The Pardoner and the Frere is dated 5 April, 1533; Johan Johan, 12 February, 153¾.

[91]

And eke, yf thou dysturbe me anythynge,

Thou art also a traytour to the Kynge,

For here hath he graunted me vnder his brode seale

That no man, yf he love hys hele,

Sholde me dysturbe or let in any wyse

[92] If the reference in l. 636 of the Play of the Wether (see note) is to be pressed, this would be an exception, giving us between 1523 and 1533 as the date of composition.