Note 339 — Chapter V · THE RELIGION OF THE FOLK
Reading edition
Handlyng Synne (ed. Furnivall), p. 148, l. 4684:
‘Daunces, karols, somour games, Of many swych come many shames.’
This poem is a free adaptation (†1303) of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Manuel de Péché, which is probably by William de Wadington, but has been ascribed to Bishop Grosseteste himself. The corresponding lines in this are
‘Muses et tieles musardries, Trippes, dances, et teles folies.’
Cf. also Handlyng Synne, p. 278, l. 8989:
‘Karolles, wrastlynges, or somour games, Who so euer haunteþ any swyche shames, Yy cherche, oþer yn cherche-ȝerde, Of sacrylage he may be a ferde; Or entyrludës, or syngynge, Or tabure bete, or oþer pypynge, Alle swychë þyng forbodyn es, Whyle þe prest stondeþ at messe’;
where the Manuel de Péché has
‘Karoles ne lutes nul deit fere, En seint eglise qe me veut crere; Car en cymiter neis karoler Est outrage grant, ou luter: Souent lur est mes auenu Qe la fet tel maner de iu; Qe grant peche est, desturber Le prestre quant deit celebrer.’