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MUSICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLANY. 269

Towards tlie end of the sixteenth century this

class ol'men had lost all credit, and were sunk so

low in the public opinion, that in the 3!)th year of

Elizabeth,a

statute waspassed by

which"Min-

strels, wandering abroad," were included among"rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars," and were

adjudged to be punished as such. This act seems

to have put an end to the profession.

I cannot conclude this account of the ancient

English Minstrels, without remarking that they are

most of them represented to have been of the north

of England. There is scarce an old historical song

or ballad wherein a Minstrel or Harper appears, but

he is characterised by way of eminence to have been

"of the North Countryc;" and indeed the prevalence

of the northern dialect in such compositions, shews

that thisrepresentation

is real.

On the other hand

the scene of the finest Scottish ballads is laid in the

south of Scotland; which should seem to have been

peculiarly the nursery of Scottish Minstrels. Ii>

the old song of Maggy Lawder, a piper is asked, byway of distinction, "come ze frae the Border?"

The martial spirit constantly kept up and exercised

near the frontier of the two kingdoms, as it fur-

nished continual subjects for tlieir songs, so it in-

spired the inhabitants of the adjacent counties oul)oth sides with the powers of poetry. Besides, as

our southern metropolis must have been ever the

scene of novelty and refinement, the northern coun-

ties, as being most distant, would preserve their

ancient manners longest, and of course the old

poetry, in which those manners are peculiarly de-

scribed. Percy's Reliques ofAncient Enr/Ush Poetiy.

RISE MY JOY SWEET MIRTH ATTEND.PRIZE GLEE, (1777.;

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