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 and Sentiments. 193 natural decline of minftrelfy, for the Hate of fociety in which it exifted was palling away. It would be curious to trace the changes in its hiftory by the inllruments which became efpecially chara6teriftic of the popular jougleur. The harp had given way to the fiddle, and already, towards the end of the thirteenth century, the fiddle was yielding its place to the tabor. In the Anglo-Norman romance of Horn, of the thirteenth century, we are told of a ribald " who goes to marriages to play on the tabor" — A It piert quil eft las un lechur Ki a CCS nocccs tnent fur juer od tabur ; and the curious fabliau of the king of England and the jougleur of Ely defcribes the latter as carrying his tabor fwung to his neck — Entour Jon col porta foun labour.