Reliques of Ancient English Poetry : Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, And Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets : Together With Some Few of Later Date
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry : Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, And Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets : Together With Some Few of Later Date
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193.) As Erasmus was correcting the vice of preachers, it was more to his point to bring an instance from the moral reciters of prose than from chan- ters of rhyme ; though the latter would probably be more popular, and therefore more common.
(be) This character is supposed to have been suggested by de- scriptions of Minstrels in the romance of Morte Arthur ; but none, it seems, have been found which come nearer to it than the follow- ing, which I shall produce, not only that the reader may jud...ge of the resemblance, but to show how nearly the idea of the Minstrel character given in this Essay corresponds with that of our old writers.
Sir Lancelot, having been affronted by a threatening abusive let- ter, which Mark King of Comwal, had sent to Queen Guenever, wherein he " spake shame by her, and Sir Lancelot,'* is comforted by a knight named Sir Dinadan, who tells him " I will make a Laif for him, and when it is made, I shall make an Harper to sing it be- fore him. So anon he went and made it, and taught it an Harper, that hyght Elyot ; and when hee could it, hee taught it to many Harpers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
193.) As Erasmus was correcting the vice of preachers, it was more to his point to bring an instance from the moral reciters of prose than from chan- ters of rhyme ; though the latter would probably be more popular, and therefore more common.
(be) This character is supposed to have been suggested by de- scriptions of Minstrels in the romance of Morte Arthur ; but none, it seems, have been found which come nearer to it than the follow- ing, which I shall produce, not only that the reader may jud...ge of the resemblance, but to show how nearly the idea of the Minstrel character given in this Essay corresponds with that of our old writers.
Sir Lancelot, having been affronted by a threatening abusive let- ter, which Mark King of Comwal, had sent to Queen Guenever, wherein he " spake shame by her, and Sir Lancelot,'* is comforted by a knight named Sir Dinadan, who tells him " I will make a Laif for him, and when it is made, I shall make an Harper to sing it be- fore him. So anon he went and made it, and taught it an Harper, that hyght Elyot ; and when hee could it, hee taught it to many Harpers.
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