Ma male sans demorer;
Mon garçon va abuvrer
Men cheval et conreer;
Ma pucele va tuer
Deux chapons por deporter
A la sause aillie.
Ma fille m’aporte un pigne
En sa main par cortoisie.
Lors sui de mon ostel sire.
When the minstrels could thus joke upon themselves, we need not be surprised if they satirised one another. In a poem of the thirteenth century, entitled “Les deux Troveors Ribauz,” two minstrels are introduced on the stage abusing and insulting one another, and while indulging in mutual accusations of ignorance in their art, they display their ignorance at the same time by misquoting the titles of the poems which they profess to be able to recite. One of them boasts of the variety of instruments on which he could perform:—