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 and Sentiments. 37 performing at a feftival at that monaftery when he was a child, and which we can hardly venture to give even under the veil of the original Latin. No. 27. Anglo-Saxon Minfireh and Gleeman. A poem in the Exeter manufcript defcribes the wandering charafter of the Saxon minftrels. He tells us :— jtoa Jcri>ende gefceapum hzveorfa^ gleo-men gumena geond grunda fela, >earfe fecga^, >onc-nvord ffreca>, fmlefU'S oWe nor'^ Jumne gemeta^ gydda gleaivne, geofum unhneaivnc. Thus re-ving ivith their lays go the gleetnen of men over many lands, Jlate their ivants, utter -words of thank, alivays jouth or north, they fnd one knoiuing in Jongs, •who is liberal of gifts. ■ -Exeter Book, p. 326. We