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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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1is named among the instruments of the accomplished Blæthgabreat:—
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,—
15 "I am a mynstrall," quod that man,
16 "My name is Activa Vita;
17 * * * *
18 . . I ken neither taboure ne trompe,
19 Ne telle no gestes,
20 . . ne fithele
21 At festes, ne harpen."
23And in "Octouian Imperator," where the rote and psalterion are mentioned together:—
25 "Ther myghth men here menstraleyne,
26 Trompys, taborus and cornettys crye,
27 Rowte, gyterne, lute, and sawtrye,
28 Fydelys, and other mo:
29 In Parys gret melodye
30 They maden tho."
32The admirers of Chaucer will remember that the Clerk of Oxenford would rather have—
34 "Twenty bookes, clothed in black and reed,
35 Of Aristotil and of his philosophie,
36 Then robus riche, or fithul, or sawtrie."
38In the present day wiser scholars than he have proved that a clerk may love his "fithul" without neglecting his
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