This is 7 kinds of awesome. Also, judging by the following collective nouns —
- A never thriving of jugglers
- A poverty of pipers
it looks like pipers and jugglers had it hard in the 15th century. Much like today, where the world is full of honest, hard-working, pipers who just cannot catch a break.
- A heard of harlots
- A bevy of ladies
- A riches of matrons
- A gaggle of women
- A nonpatience of wives
- A multiply of husbands
- A rout of knights
- A host of soldiers
- A host of men
- A fellowship of yeomen
- A state of princes
- A thought of barons
- A congregation of people
- A prudence of vicaries
- A superfluity of nuns
- A school of clerics
- A converting of preachers
- A scull of friars
- An abominable sight of monks
- An example of martyrs
- An observance of hermits
- A pontifica of prelates
- A dignity of canons
- A charge of curates
- A discretion of priests
- A disworhip of scots
- A doctrine of doctors
- A sentence of judges
- A damning of jurors
- An eloquence of lawyers
- A rascal of boys
- A blush of boys
- An obesiance of servants
- A draught of butlers
- A proud showing of tailors
- A temperance of cooks
- A stalk of fosters
- A laughter of ostlers
- A glossing of taverners
- A malepertness of peddlers
- A thrave of threshers
- A squat of dawbers
- A fighting of beggars
- A seat of ushers
- An untruth of sumners
- A melody of harpers
- A poverty of pipers
- A tabernacle of bakers
- A disguising of tailors
- A bleach of souters
- A smear of curriers
- A cluster of churls
- An Incredibility of cuckolds
- A faith of merchants
- A provision of stewards of houses
- A credence of sewers
- An embruing of carvers
- A blast of hunters
- A safeguard of porters
- A threatening of courteours
- A lying of pardoners
- A misbelieve of painters
- A lath of carters
- A scolding of gamesters
- A wandering of tinkers
- A worship of writers
- A never thriving of jugglers
- A feast of brewers
- A goring of butchers
- A drunken ship of cobblers
