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"Sir Ladore let make a feast,
That was fair and honest,
With his lord the king;
There was much minstrelsy,
Tromp-es, tabors, and psaltery,
Both harp and fiddl-e-ing:"
And in Chaucer's "January and May," v. 1234.
"At every course came the loud minstrelsy."
Warton.
Note 41.Page 217.
"Gower, in the "Confessio Amantis," may perhaps have copied the circumstance of the morning trumpet from this apologue.
"It so befell, that on a day
There was ordained by the lawe
A trump with a stern breath,
Which was cleped the trump of death:
And in the court where the king was,
A certain man this trumpe of brass
Hath in keeping, and thereof serveth,
That when a lord his death deserveth.
He shall this dreadful trump-e blow,
Before his gate, to make it know,
