[345] Kettle-drums.
[346] In the account of the minstrel at Kenilworth, subsequently given, he is described as “a squiere minstrel of Middlesex, that travelled the country this summer time.”
“Miri it is in somer’s tide
Swainés gin on justing ride.”
“Whanne that April with his shourés sote,” &c.
“Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.”
[349] Tedious, irksome.
[350] Lose their.
[351] Renders tedious.
[352] Fontenelle (“Histoire du Théâtre,” quoted by Percy) tells us that in France, men, who by the division of the family property had only the half or the fourth part of an old seignorial castle, sometimes went rhyming about the world, and returned to acquire the remainder of their ancestral castle.