Minstrels unborn will sing of this great love of yours.
One of these minstrels was a young man named Harmonious; and while the others talked of the songs that they would sing, he gathered the wild flowers that grew by the roadside.
The minstrels were men who went about from castle to castle and from palace to cot, singing beautiful songs and playing on harps.
When the minstrels heard the king’s message, they made haste to the palace; and it so happened that three of them met on the way and decided to travel together.
Now all the minstrelslooked up in surprise when they heard these words from Harmonious; and the oldest minstrel said to the king: “Harmonious is surely mad!
Expenses for all manner of provisions and delicacies, for minstrels and evidently, too, for a play occur.
Expenses of the Maye Feast at Dunmow in 1538 (Cooks, minstrels and players mentioned), Essex Arch.
At the end of the sixteenth century the minstrels had fallen, in England at least, into entire degradation.
Moreover, as Professor Child points out, ‘oral transmission by the unlettered is not to be feared nearly so much as by minstrels, nor by minstrels nearly so much as modern editors.
Minstrels of all sorts were by this time nearly extinct, in person if not in name; their successors were the vendors of broadsides.
He looked forward to a time when his art of itself must fade, when other minstrels should arise with new secrets of power; and what would become of him then?
These narratives are in prose, but they were based, in many instances, on the songs which the minstrels (skalds) sang to appreciative audiences assembled at the banqueting board of a Viking chieftain.
Wandering minstrels sang at feasts in the palaces of kings and accompanied their lays with the music of the clear-toned lyre.
The songs of the troubadours and wandering minstrels were the popular songs of the day of Columbus, and in Spain the troubadours still survived.
The troubadours and minstrels were practising it, and furthermore it is inconceivable that they themselves did not often hum the catch of a madrigal.
It changed her to rock, and she lies in her chamber, Her faithful stone minstrels all crouched by her side; Above her, weed banners of crimson and amber Wave slow in the sweep of the tide, Glide Hither and yon on the tide.
These bands of itinerant minstrelswere called 'Mummers.
Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring In triumph to the world the youthful spring!
To tell of great tidings strange and true, Minstrels and maids, stand forth on the floor.
Those twain knelt down to the Little One, Minstrels and maids, stand forth on the floor.
Everyone was dressed in the most sumptuous manner; the minstrels and heralds were clothed in the costliest garments; the knights who were engaged in the sports and their horses were most gorgeously arrayed.
When in bands these wandering minstrels have other instruments besides violins.
Discarding their picturesque rags, these wandering minstrels have adopted hideous old clothes that others have cast off.
At the great meal at noon the minstrels and a long train of servitors bore in the blanched boar's head, with a golden lemon in its jaws, the trumpeters being preceded by two gentlemen in gowns, bearing four torches of white wax.
It was usual on these occasions to have a monkey riding on the bear's back, and several discordant minstrels fiddling, to give additional publicity to the coming festival.
But while the minstrels found their temporary homes in the castles of the nobility, we have reason to believe that the Goliardi haunted abbeys and amused the leisure of ecclesiastical lords.
We seem to trace in the lament a change from habits of simple vagabondage to professional dependence, as minstrels and secretaries, upon men of rank in Church and State, which came over the Goliardic class.
As one of these minstrels sat on a flowering weed and gave himself up to a lyrical transport, I made careful notes, and now give the substance of my elaborate entries.
Of course, they were Melospiza fasciata montana, but their clear, bell-like trills were precise copies of those of the merry lowland minstrels of the East.
We vainly ask for proof that in any early national literature known to us poets have been true to the colour and manners of the remote times in which their heroes moved, and of which old minstrels sang.
Here a king or prince has a minstrel, honoured as were the minstrels described in the ancient Irish books of law.
Every society of this kind has had its ruling military class, its ancient legends, and its minstrels who on these legends have based their songs.
Bring forth your sable robes of mourning, and bid the minstrels raise a dirge for the dead.
Oft shall thy praises be sung, lady, by minstrels of music in every land.
His pride forbade him to appear personally before the populace, but it permitted him to provide wandering minstrels with copies of these poems, and so entertain the common folk by deputy.
Over the roasted swans and peacock pies, The minstrels in the great black gallery tuned All hearts to mirth, until it seemed their cups Were brimmed with dawn and sunset, and they drank The wine of gods.
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