Note 531 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES

Julleville, Les Com. 97. These performances were known as les pois pilés and began about the middle of the fourteenth century. The Anglo-French entrelude, asterisked by the N. E. D., is found in 1427 (cf. p. 186). Collier’s theory receives some support from the Spanish use of the term entremes for a comic piece played in conjunction with a serious auto. But the earlier sense of entremes itself appears to be for an independent farce played at banquets (Ticknor, Hist. of Span. Lit. (ed. 1888), i. 231; ii. 449).