> > yet people keep on inviting me to these "Bardic competitions"...
> > 
> > Gregory Blount
> > 
> You could always sing "99 bottles of mead in the hall" while playing your 
> da gamba. 

Well, that would be an authentic presentation...

'His head was couered with a round cap, his body with a side skirted
tawny coate, his legs and feete trust vppe in leather buskins, . . . his
treble violl in his hande, assured me of his profession. On which (by
his continual sawing, hauing left but one string) after his best
manner, hee gaue me a huntsup.'(_Kind-hartes Dreame_ (N. S. S.
_Shakspere Allusion Bks._), pt. i, p. 43.)

-- Gregory Blount, who would insist that he was of a higher class than
   this minstrel


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