Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.

'Behold the merry minstrels of the morn, The swarming songsters of the careless grove, Ten thousand throats that, from the flowering thorn, Hymn their good God and carol sweet of love, Such grateful kindly raptures them emove!

Remembrance.[A] You bid the minstrel strike the lute, And wake once more a soothing tone Alas!

Maiden, if thou dost rather choose a beggarly minstrel than a high-born knight, take thy choice.

Launfal clothed in scarlet the minstrel.

Of their love and content the minstrel wrought this Lay.

Then he struck off the head of the child Ortlieb, which bounded into Kriemhild's lap, cut off the minstrel Werbel's hand, and began hewing right and left among the Hungarians, aided by all his companions, who manfully followed his example.

" "A position is a job wid a white color on it," defined the minstrel.

He was fond of old ballads, and encouraged the wandering minstrels, who entertained the king with topical songs till a late hour.

Let Kallikles in his dwelling beside Acheron find in my tongue a minstrel of his praise, for that at the games of the deep-voiced wielder of the trident his brows were green with parsley of Corinth; of him, boy, did Euphänes, thy aged grandsire, rejoice erewhile to sing.

III THE LAY OF THE DOLOROUS KNIGHT Hearken now to the Lay that once I heard a minstrel chanting to his harp.

5., commonly called the Vagrant Act, which includes "minstrels" under that amiable class of independents, the rights of the family of Dutton in the county of Chester are expressly reserved.

"Is he borrowed a gun fum you?" inquired the minstrel, solemnly.

This "pleasant-witted gentleman," as Stow calls the royal mimus (which Percy interprets "minstrel"), having, according to the legend, "diverted the palaces of princes with courtly mockeries and triflings" for many years, bethought himself at last of more serious matters, and went to do penance at Rome.

Romance hath lost her minstrel, No more his magic strain Shall throw a sweeter spell around, The legends of Almaine.

What minstrel loves not well The Tyndarids, and Helen, and the chiefs That trod Troy down for Meneläus' sake?

Then presently they met three merry minstrels, all clad in red, who stared amain to see a Gray Friar with such short robes walking in the middle of the road, and two brothers with heads bowed with shame, riding upon richly caparisoned cobs on the footpaths.

He carried in his bosom a little handbook in which he noted things as they struck himnow a bit of family genealogy, now a prayer, now such a story as that of Ealdhelm playing minstrel on the bridge.

You remember de niggah minstrels we used to put on.

They put on various disguises as they went, Bertram appearing now in the guise of a holy Palmer, now as a wandering minstrel As he was sitting, despondent and well-nigh despairing, beneath a hawthorn tree, an aged monk came by, and on seeing the supposed minstrel's face of sorrow, said to him, "All minstrels yet that e'er I saw Are full of game and glee, But thou art sad and woe-begone; I marvel whence it be.

Ages have flown,the vagrant gales Have swept that lonely land; the flowers Have nodded to the breeze; the vales, Long, long, have sheltered in their bowers, The forest minstrels; and the race Of mastodons hath come and gone;

"Bright in her father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall, Loud sang the minstrels all, Chaunting his glory; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand, Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story.

They were bright and characteristic enough for that; and indeed newspapers in Germany date from this time, and from the doggerel broadsides of satire and description which then supplanted minstrels of whatsoever name or guild, as they were carried by post, and read in every hamlet.[A] But the best of these poems were pompous, dull, and tediously elaborated.

"COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT A STAMP STUCK ON AT THAT ANGLE MEANS IN THE LANGUAGE OF POSTAGE-STAMPS?"] * * * * * From an account of the Ministerial crisis in Sweden: "Two imperialist minstrels, however, Von Melsted and Lengquist, did quite enough mischief.

"And wherefore at moonrise?" "'Tis at this sweet hour your minstrel singeth best.