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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
42 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 26. See the scan on archive.org.
1De tous giex sot a grant plenté;
2Plein fu de debonnaireté,
3Por ce qui il est de si bons sens,
4Disoient li gent à son tens,
5Que il ert dex des jugléors
6Et dex de tos les chantéors."
8In or about the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there are numerous examples. From the "Estoire de Troie le Grant," Roquefort, "De la Poesie Françoise," &c. quotes:—
10"N'orgue, harpe, ne chyfonie,
11Rote, vielle, et armonie,
12Sautier, cymbale et tympanon,
13Monocorde, lire et coron,
14Ses sont li xii instrument
15Que il sonne si doucement."
17Also from "Roman de la Poire,"—
19"Et si i ot à grant planté
20Estrument de divers mestiers,
21Estives, harpes, et sautiers,
22Vieles, gygues, et rotes,
23Qui chantoient diverses notes."
25In a romance by Guiraud de Cabrera, the following instruments are mentioned together:—
27"L'us menet arpa, l'autre viula,
28L'us flautella, l'autre siula;
29L'us mena giga, l'autre rota."
31In the "Romance of Cleomades,"—
33"Plenté d'estrumens y avoit;
34Vieles et salterions,
35Harpes et rotes et canons
36Et estives de Cornouaille."
38Guillaume de Machault, of the fourteenth century, in "Le Tems Pastour," has a very long list of instruments:—
40"Mais qui véist après mangier
41Venir menestreux sans dangier
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