Note 334 — Chapter XX · THE SECULARIZATION OF THE PLAYS
Reading edition
Cf. vol. i. p. 91. An anchoress of Tarrant Keynston (Ancren Riwle, †1150, C. S. 318) was bound to confess if she ‘eode oðe pleouwe ine chircheie: biheold hit ⁊ oðe wrastlinge ⁊ oðer fol gomenes’: but ‘pleouwe,’ like ludus (vol. i. p. 393), may have a very general meaning.