...And He be your boye, so faine of fighte, To beare your harpe by yotir knee. (1) Harper, or minstrel. The minstrels were an order of men, in the middle ages, who united the arts of poetry and music, and sung verses to the harp, of their own compobing. They also...

...«r«t edition in MDCCLXV. [ xxi 3 AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. I- 1 HE MINSTRELS (A) were an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted...the harp verses composed by themselves, or others *. They also appear to have accompanied their songs with mimicry and action ; and to have practised...

...given an inaccurate, and somewhat exaggerated account, of the English Minstrels, whom he defined to be an " order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and musie, and sung to the harp the verses which they themselves composed." • The reverend editor of...

...from the first edition in MDCCLXV. AN ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELS IN ENGLAND. I. THE MINSTRELS (A) were an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and musie, and sang to the harp verses composed by themselves, or others.* They also appear to have accompanied...

...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others."* In a very learned and elegant essay upon...

...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." * In a very learned and elegant essay upon...

...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." l In a very learned and elegant essay upon...

...chiefly ascribed the metrical compositions on which he desired to fix the attention of the public, as " an order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp verses composed by themselves or others." 1 In a very learned and elegant essay upon...

...given an inaccurate, and somewhat exaggerated account, of the English Minstrels, whom he defined to be an "order of men in the middle ages, who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sung to the harp the verses which they themselves composed." The reverend editor of the Rcliques produced...

...to administer by their skill to the amusement of their patrons. ' The minstrels,' observes Percy, ' were an order of men in the middle ages who subsisted...the harp verses composed by themselves or others.' They also appear to have accompanied their songs with mimicry and action, and to have practised such...