Chapter Xiii.--Masking, the Mummers' Play, the Feast of Fools, and the

BOY BISHOP

1. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 390 f.

2. #The Works Of Ben Jonson#, ed. by Barry Cornwall (London, 1838), 600.

3. #Shakespeare, "Henry VIII.,"# Act I. Sc. IV.

4. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 403 f.

5. Ibid. i. 227, 402.

6. Ibid. i. 402. Cf. Burne and Jackson, 410.

7. For a bibliography of texts of the mummers' plays see Chambers, "M. S.," i. 205 f. |383|

8. This account of the plays and dances is based upon Chambers, "M. S.," i. 182 f. (chapters ix. and x.).

9. #Tacitus, "Germania,"# cap. xxiv. (Eng. Trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe, Oxford, 1908).

10. Cf. Harrison, "Themis," 43 f.

11. Professor Gilbert Murray in "Themis," 341 f.

12. Harrison, "Themis," 232.

13. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 226.

14. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 192, 213 f.

15. Ibid. i. 220 f.

16. Lawson, 223 f.

17. Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. x. 482.

18. This account of the Feast of Fools and the Boy Bishop is mainly derived from Chambers, "M. S.," i. 274-371, and from #Mr. A. F. Leach's# article, #"The Schoolboys' Feast,"# in #"The Fortnightly Review"# (London), vol. lix., 1896, 128 f.

19. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 294.

20. Full text in Chambers, "M. S.," ii. 280 f.

21. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 372 f.

22. #"Two Sermons preached by the Boy Bishop at St. Paul's,"# ed. by J. G. Nichols, with an Introduction by E. F. Rimbault (London, printed for the Camden Society, 1875).

23. Ibid. 3.

24. Quoted by #F. J. Snell, "The Customs Of Old England"# (London, 1911), 44.

25. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 366.

26. #J. Aubrey, "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme"# (1686-7), ed. by J. Britten (London, 1881), 40 f.

27. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 350.

28. Feilberg, ii. 254.