Note 339 — Chapter XX · THE SECULARIZATION OF THE PLAYS

Text in Reliquiae Antiquae, ii. 42; Hazlitt, 73; from late fourteenth-century volume of homilies formerly in library of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. There is also in Rel. Ant. i. 322 a satirical English poem from Cott. MS. Cleop. B. ii (fifteenth century), against the miracle plays of the ‘frer mynours,’ apparently at Rome. But the Minorite in Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede (†1394, ed. Skeat), 107, says of his order, ‘At marketts & myracles we medleþ vs nevere.’