The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . na- musa. As a confirmation of what has been alreadyadvanced upon the use of this instrument during themiddle ages of English History, we may quoteChaucer, who thus describes the Miller in the Pro-logue to his Canterbury Tales. Wei coude he stelen come, and tollen thries,And yet he had a thombe of gold, parde,A white cote and a blew hode wered he;A bagge-pipe wel could he blow and soune,And therwithal he brought us out of toun
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . na- musa. As a confirmation of what has been alreadyadvanced upon the use of this instrument during themiddle ages of English History, we may quoteChaucer, who thus describes the Miller in the Pro-logue to his Canterbury Tales. Wei coude he stelen come, and tollen thries,And yet he had a thombe of gold, parde,A white cote and a blew hode wered he;A bagge-pipe wel could he blow and soune,And therwithal he brought us out of toune. Accordingly, in Stoddarts admirably characteristicand correct Pilgrimage to Canterbury, we findthe jolly Miller playing most lustily upon the Bag-pipe. It is unnecessary to remind our readers of themanner in which our instrument is alluded to byShakspeare, or to give quotations from more modernauthors in which the Bag-pipe is mentioned. We proceed to offer cuts of several forms of theancient Bag-pipe, which have occurred to us inilluminations and early engravings. The figuresimmediately subjoined, of a musical Rabbit and Cat,are from a MS. of the xiv century.*.
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