Note 595 — Chapter XXV · HUMANISM AND MEDIAEVALISM

John Rastell printed †1536 Of gentylnes and nobylyte, A dyalogue ... compilit in maner of an enterlude with divers toys and gestis addyd thereto to make mery pastyme and disport; cf. Bibliographica, ii. 446. Heywood’s Witty and Witless is a similar piece, and a later one, Robin Conscience, is in W. C. Hazlitt, Early Popular Poetry, iii. 221. In 1527 Rastell seems to have provided for the court a pageant of ‘The Father of Hevin’ in which a dialogue, both in English and Latin, of riches and love, written by John Redman, and also a ‘barriers’ were introduced (Brewer, iv. 1394; Collier, i. 98; Hall, 723; Brown, Venetian Papers, iv. 105). A dialogue of Riches and Youth, issuing in a ‘barriers,’ is described by Edward VI in 1552 (Remains, ii. 386). On the vogue during the Renascence of this dialogue literature, which derives from the mediaeval débats, cf. Herford, ch. 2.