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Vill Introduction including among the fools many whom he knew personally. With the eye of disapproving youth on the sporting cleric he wrote : ‘For if one can flater and bere a hawke on his Fyst, He shalbe made Person of Honyngton or of Chat When dealing with the fool ‘that nought can and nought wyll lerne’ he bethought him of his companions, the ‘secundaries’ in the college at Ottery : ‘I haue eyght neyghbours, that firste shall haue a place Within this my shyp, for they most worthy be. They may theyr lernynge receyue costeles and fre, Theyr wallys abuttynge and ioynynge to the scoles. No thynge they can, yet nought wyll they lerne nor se.’ As a result of Barclay?s treatment the German element in the ‘Narrenschiff’ was effaced and the ‘Shyp of Folys’ became a British bark. His fools are dressed in the national motley, and give a vivid picture of Pre-Reformation England. Side by side with Locher’s Latin, the new translation was ‘inprentyd in the Cyte of
