Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 237
of the past. In the lat-ter part of the fifteenth cen-tury, minstrels were styledas ribalds, heretics,and were considered a dis-graceful sort of people;while a little later, theywere proscribed by an Actof Parliament as vaga-bonds and rogues. Yeteven at the beginning ofthe last century there were… … THE DtLCIMER. 77-] THE OLD-TIME MINSTRELS. 217 the sixteenth century, we have a picture of therlorn condition of the once jovial gleeman : The way was long, the wind was cold,The minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek and tresses graySeemed to have known a better day.
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