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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Note 290 — Chapter I · HERBALISTS, CHARLATANS, MINSTRELS, JUGGLERS, AND TUMBLERS

Lucy Toulmin Smith translation

“There saugh I pleyen jugelours,

Magiciens and tregetours,

And phitonisses, charmeresses,

Olde wiches, sorceresses

That use exorsisaciouns

And eke thes fumygaciouns.”

(Chaucer’s “House of Fame,” l. 169.)

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