...among the commonalty. Thus Scott's " Last Minstrel" whiningly tells how he was fain, at last, "To tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." Latterly, the minstrels, troubadours, &c. added less laudable employment to their own ostensible calling...

...have changed, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime, A wandering harper,...peasant's ear. The harp a King had loved to hear." Curious XanoboloinQ Customs. IN bygone times jocular tenures and mirthful manorial customs formed a...

...were changed, old manners gone ; A stranger fills the Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time a Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his way from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. LOVE...

...the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : The Minstrel gazed with...

...land. 558.' Newark's tower. Newark Castle, the seat of the Duchess. See Introduction, 11. 27, 28 : " He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower." 565. ope, open ; an example of ' apocope ' used only in poetry. 568. "Bowhill, is now, as has been...

...from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's...resting-place was nigh: With hesitating step at last, 'Hie embattled po;:al arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bat Had oft roll'd back the tide...

...from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear. He pass'd where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's...resting-place was nigh: With hesitating step at last, 'Hie embattled portal arch he pass'd, Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide...

...therewith pay some Wandering Willie to fiddle at their own doors ; or bid some grey-haired minstrel " Tune, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear." And similarly the dwellers in the hut of the field, and garret of the city, are beginning to think...

...Old times were changed, old manners A stranger 6Ued the Stuarts' throne , The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a King had loved to hear. THE LOVE OF COUNTRY. BKEATOES there the man with soul so This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart...

...were changed, old manners gone, A stranger filled the Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper,...peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.' until long after they were composed ; and copies taken from the lips of different persons often vary...