of the Crusades--Romances--Sir Bevis of Hamptoun--Prominence
of the Lower Animals--Allegories 161

CHAPTER II.

Anglo-Saxon Humour--Rhyme--Satires against the Church--The
Brunellus--Walter Mapes--Goliardi--Piers the
Ploughman--Letters of Obscure Men--Erasmus--The
Praise of Folly--Skelton--The Ship of Fools--Doctour
Doubble Ale--The Sak full of Nuez--Church Ornamentation--Representations
of the Devil 179

CHAPTER III.

Origin of Modern Comedy--Ecclesiastical Buffoonery--Jougleurs
and Minstrels--Court Fools--Monks' Stories--The
"Tournament of Tottenham"--Chaucer--Heywood--Roister
Doister--Gammer Gurton 211

CHAPTER IV.

Robert Greene--Friar Bacon's Demons--The "Looking
Glasse"--Nash and Harvey 231

CHAPTER V.

Donne--Hall--Fuller 243

CHAPTER VI.