[ [859] Anatomy of Melancholy, published A. D. 1660.
[ [860] Canterbury Tales.
[ [861] Published at London, 1750.
[ [862] Hall, in the life of that monarch.
[ [863] A. D. 1604, in the second year of the reign of James I. Treatise on College and Schools in and about London, printed 1615.
[ [864] Some time ago the spinnet was a favourite instrument among the ladies; afterwards the guitar; and now the harpsichord, or forte-piano.
[ [866] At Braintree fair in Essex. Hist. Eng. Poet. vol. iii. p. 292. This was a century and a half back, when twenty shillings was a considerable sum. The ancient ballade have frequently this colophon: "Printed by A. B. and are to be sold at the stalls of the ballad-singers." But an ordinance published by Oliver Cromwell against the strolling fiddlers, silenced the ballad-singers, and obliged the sellers to shut up shop. Hawkins, Hist. Music, vol. iv. p. 113.
[ [867] Edward Ward, author of the London Spy, part xi. p. 255.
[ [868] The barbers formerly were often musicians, and usually kept a lute, a viol, or some other musical instrument, in their shops, to amuse their customers while waiting; at present, the newspaper is substituted for the instrument of music.