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Thread #126580 Message #2814780
Posted By: IanC
18-Jan-10 - 05:36 AM
Thread Name: History of British Folk Guitar
Subject: RE: History of British Folk Guitar
From Chaucer:
A merry child he was, so God me save; Well could he letten blood, and clip, and shave, And make a charter of land, and a quittance. In twenty manners could he trip and dance, After the school of Oxenforde tho, And with his legges caste to and fro; And playen songes on a small ribible; (fiddle) Thereto he sung sometimes a loud quinible (treble) And as well could he play on a gitern. (guitar) In all the town was brewhouse nor tavern, That he not visited with his solas, There as that any garnard tapstere was. (barmaid)