Note 294 — Chapter I · HERBALISTS, CHARLATANS, MINSTRELS, JUGGLERS, AND TUMBLERS
Lucy Toulmin Smith translation
“Ich can nat tabre ne trompe · ne telle faire gestes,
Farten ne fithelen · at festes, ne harpen,
Japen ne jogelen · ne gentelliche pipe,
Nother sailen ne sautrien · ne singe with the giterne.”
(“Piers Plowman,” ed. Skeat, Text C, passus xvi. l. 205.)