Note 434 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS

There is not much direct imitation of the Roman de la Rose in the moralities. Perhaps the French Honneur des Dames of Andrieu de la Vigne (Julleville, Rép. com. 73) comes nearest. But its leading episode, the siege of the fortress of Danger, is reflected in the siege of the Castle of Perseverance and that of the Castle of Maudleyn in the Mary Magdalen of the Digby MS. On the general place of allegory in contemporary literature cf. Courthope, i. 341.