_Hic est confessor Domini, sed nec Dominarum,
Qui magis est blandus, quam Titivillus eis._
[632] There could not be a connection with: _Titimallus_--Titan (Joh.
de Janua).
[633] Freund's _Dict._ quotes it from Plautus, _Casin_ 2, 5, 39: _Non
ego istud verbum empsitem titivillitio_. The learned Ben Jonson knew
the word (_Silent Woman_, 4, 1):--
Wife! buz? titivilitium
There's no such thing in nature!
[634] _Inhumatio defuncti_, 1, 142; cf. also his 'dissertation' on the
order of the Burial, _ib._ CCXCIII.
[635] Ed. _Surtees Soc._ 1875, p. 60; cf. _ib._, _Commendatio Animarum_
56*; _De Modo Dicendi Exsequias defunctorum ad usum Sarum_ 80*.
[636] Chapter _De Exequiis_; _Officium Defunctorum_.
[637] Cf. _ib._, _cerei qui cum cruce et thuribulo de more ...
portabantur accensi_; unto the holy candle commit we our souls at our
last departing, Tindale, _Works_, 1, 225; _ib._ 48; 3, 140, etc.; on
the wax candle and driving the Devil away, cf. Latimer, _Sermons_, 27
(499). The reformers were as much against the candles as against the
bells, and other 'popish superstitions'; cf. Grindal's _Visitation
Book_ (1551-52), §§ 40, 46, etc.
[638] Cf. Brand's _Pop. Ant._ 2, 220.
[639] Cf. _Durandus Rationale_, Lib. I. fol. 9 (_De Campanis_): "Uerum
aliquo moriente campanæ debent pulsari ut populus hoc audiens oret pro
illo; pro muliere quidem bis ... pro viro vero ter pulsatur," etc. The
superstitious background was that the bells were believed to drive away
evil spirits. Cf. _ib._, "campanæ pulsantur ut demones timentes fugiant
... hæc etiam est causa quare ecclesia videns concitari tempestates
campanas pulsat ut demones tubas eterni regis _id est_ campanas
audientes territi fugiant et a tempestatis concitatione quiescant et
ut campanæ pulsationes fideles admoneant et prouocent pro instanti
periculo orationi insistere," and Brand's _Pop. Ant._ 2, 202.
[640] bells ... with such other vanities, Tindale, 3, 258; ape's play,
_ib._ 283, etc.
[641] Grindal, _Works_, 136.
[642] 3, 362; Injunctions at York, 1571, 8; Articles at Canterbury,
1576, 9.
[643] Collier, _Hist. Dram. Poetry_, 2, 459, thinks the whole epilogue
is 'sung.'
_William Stevenson_