Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, 1490-1555 > Volume 4, 1936

NOTES TO ANE SATYRE OF THE THRIE ESTAITIS 153
25. Taylour [1288].
26. Jennie [1300] : tailor’s daughter.
27. Taylour’s Wyfe [1301]: carries a distaff, 1337.
28. Sowtar’s Wyfe [1310] : wears hose and shoes, 1372 ; her clothes
[skirts], 1383, 2174.
29. Correctioun’s Varlet [1474].
30. Divyne Correctioun [1572] : carries a sword, 1580 ; has wings,
1671, 4332 ; carries a wand, 1703.
31. Pauper [1926]: in rags, 1931, 1938; lame, 1959; empty
bag or purse, 2238 ; carries a groat in a rag, 2239.
32. Pardoner [2037] r pardons sealed with oyster shells, 2048,
2080; privilege, 2048; relics, a jawbone, 2086; cow’s
horn, 2089; rope, 2092; cow’s fundament, 2098; pig’s
snout, 2099.
33. Wilkin [2180] : pardoner’s boy ; with a horse-bone, 2x83.
34. Scribe [2389] : with writing materials, 3052.
35. Dampster [2389].
36. lohne the Common-weill [2417] : in rags, 2438; lame, 2439;
re-clothed, 3772.
37. First Sergeant [2471] : carries cord to bind prisoners, 2484.
38. Secund Sergeant [2475].
39. Covetice [2492] : one of the vices of Spiritualitie ; carries a box
of gold, 3739.
40. Common Thift [3201].
41. Oppressioun [3261].
42. First Clerk [3306]: a doctor, 3313.
43. Second Clerk [3306] : also called First Licentiate, 3560.
44. Third Clerk [3306] : also called Batcheler, 3591.
45. Trumpet [3792] : a trumpeter, apparently always accompanies
Diligence.
46. Folie [4272]: in motley; carries a creel of fool’s caps or hoods,
4384, 4502 et seq.; phallus, 4410; food for his son and
daughter, 4389; a wallet which Diligence threatens to steal,
4405, possibly the phallus ; obtains a doctor’s hood, 4454.
47. Glaiks [4390] : Folie’s daughter.
48. Stult [4394] : Folie’s son.
49. Minstrels [4623] : bagpipers, 4623.
The Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh record [ante, E.R.B.E., II.
198-99] the provision of eight play hats, one king's crown [for Rex],
one mitre [for Bishop], one sceptre [for Rex], one pair of angel’s wings
[for Divine Correctioun], two angel’s hair [for Veritie and Chastitie],
and one chaplet of triumph [probably Sensualitie’s head-dress]. Twelve
minstrels preceded the procession to the playfield [E.R.B.E., II. 197].
Staging and Properties. A multiple setting was undoubtedly em¬
ployed. W. J. Lawrence, "Early French Players in England,” The
Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies, First Series, p. 127, n. 3,
claims this as the earliest example of a secular play with a secular
setting, but those for Pride of Life and The Castle of Perseverance were
earher. Miss Mill, " Representations," 648, attempts a diagram of a
circular stage with the audience seated in just over a semicircle;