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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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1Pignez et mis en pure corps.
2Là furent meints divers acors
3Car je vis là tout en un cerne
4Viole, rubebe, guiterne;
5L’enmorache, le micamon,
6Citole et le psalterion;
7Harpes, tabours, trompes, nacaires,
8Orgues, cornes plus de dix paires;
9Cornemuses, flajos et chevrèttes,
10Douceines, simbales, clochettes,
11Tymbre, la flauste Brehaingne
12Et le grand cornet d’Allemaingue,
13Flajos de Saus, fistule, pipe,
14Muse d’Aussay, trompe petite,
15Buisines, eles, monicorde,
16Ou il n’a qu’une seule corde,
17Et muse de blet, tout ensamble;
18Et certainement il me semble
19Qu’oncques mais tele mélodie
20Ne fut oncques veue ne oye."
22In the "Prise d’Alexandrie," by the same author, many of the same instruments are mentioned together, among which are the following which relate to our subject:—
23"Vielles, rubebes et psalterion, gingues, rotes, monocorde, chifonie."
25Eustace Deschamps, in his poem on the death of Machaut, introduces together,—
26"Rubebes, leuths, vielles, syphonie,
27Psalterions, trestous instrumens coys,
28Rothes, guiterne, flaustres, chalemie."
30In the "Romance of Sir Degrevant," of about the fourteenth century, printed by the Camden Society, it is said,—
31"He was ffayre mane and ffree,
32And gretlech yaff hym to gle,
33To harp and to sautré,
34And geterne ffull gay;
35Well to play in a rote."
37In a note, a passage from an unpublished poem by
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