And to the cros by gode skeyl

Ys the harp lykened weyl."

FAIR AT WESTMINSTER IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. (See p. [506.])

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In the churches of this time some of the public offices were considered as musical exhibitions, and were frequented for amusement rather than devotion.

The clergy of the Middle Ages sought to amuse the people by their pageants and miracle plays, and to attract them by joyous music. To the various diversions of hunting, hawking, feasting, and dancing, which a king recommended to his daughter to chase away her melancholy, he added:—

"Then shall ye go to your even-song,

With tenors and trebles among;

Your quire nor organ songe shall want,