Johannes Bolte. FFC 39

Lucres and Eurialus, Virgils life, The Castle of ladiez,The wido Edyth, The king and the tanner, Frier Rous,Hovvleglas, Gargantua, Robinhood, Adambel, Clim of theclough and William of Cloudesley, The churl and theburd, The seauen wise masters, The wife lapt in a morelsskin 1 ), The sak füll of nuez, The seargeaunt that becamea fryar, Skogan, Cellyn cloout, The fryar and the boy' 2 ),Elynor Rumming, The nutbrooun maid etc.

87. E. Spenser, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberdstale 1591 (geschrieben 1578—79. Works ed. by Grosart1882 3, IOO v. 26):

With pleasant'tales (fit for that idle stound)They cast in course to waste the wearie houres:Some tolde of Ladis and their Paramoures,Some of brave Knights and their renowned Squires,Some of the Faeries and their Strange attires,And some of Giaunts hard to beleeved,That the delight thereof nie much releeved.Amongst the rest a good old vornan was,Higlit Mother Hubberd, who did farre surpasThe rest in honest mirth, that seem'd her well:She when her turne was come her tale to teil,Tolde of a stränge adventure, that betidedBetwixt the Foxe and th' Ape by him misguided.

88. Reginald Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft 1584p. 153: 'In our childhood our mothers' maids have soterrified ns with an oughe divell, having hornes on hishead, fier in his mouth, and a taile in his breech, eieslike a bason, fanges like a dog, clawes like a beare, askin like a niger, and a voice roaring like a lion, whereby

') BolleSeelmann. Niederdeutsche Schauspiele 1895 S. *1S.2 ) Oben 2. 491.