[260] Magnin, _Journal des Savants_ (1846), 545. [261] Lambertus Ardensis, _Chronicon_, c. 81 (ed. Godefroy Menilglaise, 175) ‘quid plura? tot et tantorum ditatus est copia librorum ut Augustinum in theologia, Areopagitam Dionysium in philosophia, Milesium fabularium in naeniis gentium, in cantilenis gestoriis, sive in eventuris nobilium, sive etiam in fabellis ignobilium, ioculatores quosque nominatissimos aequiparare putaretur.’ [262] Freymond, _Jongleurs et Menestrels_, 34: ‘Il est de tout bons menesterieux: Il set peschier, il set chacier, Il set trop bien genz solacier; Il set chançons, sonnez et fables, Il set d’eschez, il set des tables, Il set d’arbalestre et d’airon.’ [263] _Daurel et Beton_ (ed. Meyer, _Soc. des anc. textes fr._ 1886), 1206: ‘El va enant, a lor des jocz mostratz, Dels us e dels altres, qu’el ne sap pro asatz. Pueis pres l[a] arpa, a .ij. laisses notatz, Et ab la viola a los gen deportat[z], Sauta e tomba; tuh s’en son alegratz.’ [264] Montaiglon-Raynaud, i. 1: ‘Ge sai contes, ge sai flabeax; Ge sai conter beax dix noveax, Rotruenges viez et noveles, Et sirventois et pastorels. Ge sai le flabel du Denier, . . . . . . . Si sai de Parceval l’estoire, . . . . . . . Ge sai joer des baasteax, Et si sai joer des costeax, Et de la corde et de la fonde, Et de toz les beax giex du monde, . . . . . . . De totes les chansons de geste.’ [265] Three of these _Enseignamens_, by Guiraut de Cabreira (†1170), Guiraut de Calanso (†1200), and Bertran de Paris (†1250), are printed by K. Bartsch, _Denkmäler der provenzalischen Litteratur_, 85-101. Cf. Bartsch, _Grundriss der prov. Lit._ 25; Hueffer, _The Troubadours_, 66; _Hist. Litt._ xvii. 581. [266] Bernhard, iii. 397, gives some French references, one dated 1395, for ‘menestriers de bouches,’ a term signifying minstrels who sang as well as played instruments. [267] There are numerous payments to jugglers, tumblers and dancers in the Household Accounts of Henry VII (Bentley, _Excerpta Historica_, 85-113; Collier, i. 50). A letter to Wolsey of July 6, 1527, from R. Croke, the tutor of Henry VIII’s natural son, the Duke of Richmond, complains of difficulties put in his way by R. Cotton, the Clerk-comptroller of the duke’s household, and adds: ‘At hic tamen in praeceptore arcendo diligens, libenter patitur scurras et mimos (qui digna lupanari in sacro cubiculo coram principe cantillent) admitti’ (Nichols, _Memoir of Henry Fitzroy_ in _Camden Miscellany_, iii. xxxviii).