Scan 48

The History Of The Violin, 1864

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1is named among the instruments of the accomplished Blaethgabreat:—

3 "Ne cude na mon swa muchel of song

4 of harpe & of salteriun:

5 of fidele & of coriun

6 of timpe and of lire."

8We have already referred to the lines of Lydgate—

10 "Harpys, fitheles, and eke rotys,

11 Wel according to ther notys."

13In "The Vision of Piers Ploughman," of the middle of the fourteenth century, the word is again introduced,—

14 "I am a mynstrall," quod that man,

15 "My name is Activa Vita;

16 * * * *

17 . . I ken neither taboure ne trompe,

18 Ne telle no gestes,

19 . . ne fithelen

20 At festes, ne harpen."

22And in "Octouian Imperator," where the rote and psalterion are mentioned together:—

24 "Ther myghth men here menstraley,

25 Trompys, taborus and cornettys crye,

26 Rowte, gyterne, lute, and sawtrye,

27 Fydelys, and other mo:

28 In Parys gret melodye

29 They maden tho."

31The admirers of Chaucer will remember that the Clerk of Oxenford would rather have—

33 "Twenty bookes, clothed in black and reed,

34 Of Aristotil and of his philosophie,

35 Then robus riche, or fithul, or sawtrie."

37In the present day wiser scholars than he have proved that a clerk may love his "fithul" without neglecting his

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