Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry: From Authentic Manuscripts and Old Printed Copies, Adorned With Cuts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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And at marriages, wakes and other fefiive meet ings, and who generally accompanyed their firains, by no means ruder than the age itfelf, with the tinkling of a harp, or fometimes, it is apprehended, with the graces of a much hum bler infirument. It may, indeed, be conceived that they would now and then be furniihed with a fuperior performance from the cloifter or college; as even the great fir Thomas More has left us fomething of the fame kind But, however it was, they feem to have been more attentive to temporary applaufe or prefent emo lument than to future fame, of which they had poflibly no idea, and, while they configned their.

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