Note 528 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES
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Hazlitt, E. D. S. 80 ‘How thanne may a prist pleyn in entirlodies?’ In Barbour, Bruce (†1375), x. 145 ‘now may ȝe heir ... Interludys and iuperdys, þat men assayit on mony vis Castellis and pelis for till ta,’ the sense is metaphorical, as in ‘ioculando et talia verba asserendo interludia fuisse vanitatis’ quoted by Ducange from Vit. Abb. S. Alb., i.e. probably Thomas Walsingham (†1422), not Matthew Paris (†1249). The reading is doubtful in Anastasius Bibliothecarius (9th cent.), Hist. Pontif. (P. L. lxxx. 1352), ‘quem iussit sibi praesentari in interludo noctu ante templum Palladis.’