enterlude

“The Guary miracle — in English, a miracle-play — is a kind of enterlude, compiled in Cornish out of some Scripture history, with that grossenes which accompanied the Romanes _vetus Comedia_.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

Or as the buffon in our enterlude called _Lustie London_ said very knauishly and like himselfe.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Many times our Poet is caried by some occasion to report of a thing that is maruelous, and then he will seeme not to speake it simply but with some signe of admiration, as in our enterlude called the _Woer_.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Another is: "Item, geven Heywood, playeng an enterlude with his children before my Ladye's grace xls."

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

So haue we remembred and set forth to your Maiestie very briefly, all the commended fourmes of the auncient Poesie, which we in our vulgare makings do imitate and vse vnder these common names: enterlude, song, ballade, carroll and ditty: borrowing them also from the French al sauing this word (song) which is our naturall Saxon English word.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The colophon is: Thus endeth thys Tragedy or enterlude, manyfestynge the chefe promyses of God unto Man by all ages in the olde lawe, from the fall of Adam to the incarnacyon of the Lorde Jesus Christ.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

As this trifling enterlude that before you hath been rehearsed,

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

[At the end:] Thus endeth the enterlude of Hycke scorner.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

So haue we remembred and set forth to your Maiestie very briefly, all the commended fourmes of the auncient Poesie, which we in our vulgare makings do imitate and vse vnder these common names: enterlude, song, ballade, carroll and ditty: borrowing them also from the French al sauing this word (song) which is our naturall Saxon English word.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Many times our Poet is caried by some occasion to report of a thing that is maruelous, and then he will seeme not to speake it simply but with some signe of admiration, as in our enterlude called the Woer.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569