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sung by the Troubadour Blondel and Richard Cceur de Lion :
"BLONDEL.
" Your beauty, lady fair,
Norte view without delight, But still so cold an air
No passion can excite; Yet this I patient see "While all are shunned like me.
"RICHARD. " No nymph my heart can wound If favour she divide, And smiles on all around,
Unwilling to decide; I'd rather hatred bear Than love with others share."
There are many memorable records of the bravery and gallantry of troubadours and min-strels, especially the English and French, to be found in our histories. The story of " Richard Cceur de Lion" has been dramatized as a romance, with ballads and songs. The original was by M. Sedaine, and produced in operatic form at the Comedie Italienne in 1786. It was adapted to the English stage first by Leonard McNally (Covent Garden, October 16th, 1786), the second by General Burgoyne (Drury Lane, October 24th, 1786).
Chronology and order can scarcely be fol-lowed with any degree of success in a popular
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