Si sai de Parceval l’estoire,
. . . . . . .
Ge sai joer des baasteax,
Et si sai joer des costeax,
Et de la corde et de la fonde,
Et de toz les beax giex du monde,
. . . . . . .
De totes les chansons de geste.’
[265] Three of these Enseignamens, by Guiraut de Cabreira (†1170), Guiraut de Calanso (†1200), and Bertran de Paris (†1250), are printed by K. Bartsch, Denkmäler der provenzalischen Litteratur, 85-101. Cf. Bartsch, Grundriss der prov. Lit. 25; Hueffer, The Troubadours, 66; Hist. Litt. xvii. 581.
[266] Bernhard, iii. 397, gives some French references, one dated 1395, for ‘menestriers de bouches,’ a term signifying minstrels who sang as well as played instruments.