Note 811 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 8)
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"York Plays," viii., ix. See also, e.g., as specimens of comical scenes, the discussions between the quack and his man in the "Play of the Sacrament": "Y^e play of y^e conversyon of ser Jonathas y^e Jewe by myracle of y^e blyssed sacrament." Master Brundyche addresses the audience as if he were in front of his booth at a fair. He will cure the diseases of all present. Be sure of that, his man Colle observes,
What dysease or syknesse y^t ever ye have, He wyll never leve yow tylle ye be in your grave.
Ed. Whitley Stokes, Philological Society, Berlin, 1860-61, p. 127 (fifteenth century).