harpe

• The Greeke Poets who made musicall ditties to be song to the lute or harpe, did vse to linke their staues together with one verse running throughout the whole song by equall distance, and was, for the most part, the first verse of the staffe, which kept so good sence and conformitie with the whole, as his often repetition did geue it greater grace. —  The Arte of English Poesie
• And suche as ben of vylayns reporte 297 I counceyl you my chyld / that ye refuse For truste ye wel / ye shal you not excuse From brecheles feste / and I may you espye Playng_e at ony game of Rybawdrye 301 44 It is to a godly chyld wel syttyng_e To vse disportes of myrthe & plesa[=n]ce To harpe or lute / or lustely to synge 304 [Sidenote: You should harp, lute, sing or dance.] —  Caxton's Book of Curtesye
• The cookes cried hot ribbes of beef roasted, pies well baked, and other victuals: there was clattering of pewter pots, harpe, pipe, and sawtrie." —  The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• Psyches commanded one to play with his harpe, it was done. —  The Golden Asse
• Which hadde an harpe of such temprure, —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

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