Note 436 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS
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Ward, i. 105; Archaeologia, xiii. 232. A débat on precisely this theme is introduced into the Chasteau d’Amour, a theological work in the form of a romance, ascribed to Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253), on which cf. F. S. Stevenson, Life of Grosseteste, 38; Jusserand, Eng. Lit. i. 214. In the English version of the fourteenth century (R. F. Weymouth, The Castel of Love, 273) the passage begins—
‘For now I chul tellen of þe stryf Þat a-mong þe foure sustren liþ.’