 | John Britton - England - 1801 - 384 pages
...to celebrate the feast of the boy-bishop. In the statutes of the archiepiscopal cathedral of Tulles, given in the year 1497, it is said, that during the...of the boy-bishop, moralities were presented, and shews of miracles, with farces and other sports, but compatable with decorum. After dinner they exhibited... | |
 | William Hone - English drama - 1823 - 318 pages
...to such early times, when he says, that ' during the celebration of the festival of the Boy Bishop moralities were presented, and shows of miracles, with farces, and other sports ; ' 3 yet, as the festival of the Boy Bishop was in England under Edward I.,4 and doubtless from its... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Booksellers and bookselling - 1839 - 1266 pages
...was publicly performed on some feast day." During the celebration of the festival of the boy bishop, moralities were presented, and shows of miracles, with farces and other sports ; it is reasonable to suppose that English interludes of some kind, if not coeval with the boy bishop,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 600 pages
...celebrated by the bishop and his prebendaries k. In the statutes of the archiépiscopal cathedral of Tulles, given in the year 1497, it is said, that during the...of the boy-bishop, " MORALITIES were presented, and shews of MIRACLES, with farces and other sports, but compatible with decorum. — After dinner they... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1870 - 1070 pages
...celebrated by the bishop and his prebendaries3. In the statutes of the archiépiscopal cathedral of Tulles, given in the year 1497, it is said, that during the...of the boybishop, ' MORALITIES were presented, and shews of MIRACLES, with ' farces and other sports, but compatible with decorum. — After dinner '... | |
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In the statutes of the archiépiscopal cathedral of Tulles, given in the year 1497, it is said, that during the celebration of the festival of the boy-bishop, " MORALITIES were presented, and shews of MIRACLES, with farces and other sports, but compatible... 