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The History of the Violin: And Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from the Remotest Times to the Present, Also, an Account of the Principal Makers, English and Foreign, with Numerous Illustrations, 1864
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1dancer, and in the "Critic" is made to turn out his toes by way of identity: as Gray says—
3 "Full oft within the spacious walls,
4 When he had fifty winters o'er him,
5 My grave lord-keeper led the brawls;
6 The seal and maces danc'd before him."
8Sir W. Leighton, in "Teares, or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule," 1613, has introduced in one of the pieces, which may be considered as a paraphrase of the 150th Psalm, the names of numerous musical instruments, but the description is too long to be inserted here. Two verses will suffice to show his style—
10 "3. Praise him with simballs, loud simballs,
11 with instruments were vs'd by Iewes:
12 With syrons crowdes and virginalls,
13 to sing his praise do not refuse.
14 4. Praise him upon the claricoales,
15 the lute and sinfonie,
16 With dulsemers and the regalls,
17 sweet sithrons melody."
19The gittron, bandore, theorba, and vialls are also mentioned.
21We may conclude this chapter by stating that Edward Alleyn, the benevolent founder of Dulwich College, was himself a performer on the lute, and at the time of his death, Nov. 25, 1626, had a "lute, a pandora, a cythern, and six vyols."
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