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The shepherds, throughout the Middle Ages, seem to have been as musical as the swains of Theocritus or Virgil; in the MS. illuminations we constantly find them represented playing upon instruments; we give a couple of goatherds from the MS. Royal 2 B vii. folio 83, of early fourteenth-century date.
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- The Project Gutenberg eBook, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, by Edward Lewes Cutts
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- Century:14th, Music, musical instrument, musicians, Woodwind
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