POPULAR SONGS. 



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the carpenters ; the songs of the i-ompaynonnayes (trades unions) ; the songs 

 relating to the culture of the soil, such as seed-time, harvest, and vintage ; 

 satirical son^s; songs bearing upon the various phases of family life, such as 

 christening, confirmation, marriage, death, widowhood, &c. ; convivial and 

 playful songs ; roundelays and songs of childhood ; and so forth. Types of all 

 these songs are to be found in M. Ampere's excellent treatise called the 

 I nst ructions du Comite de la Langue, de 1'Histoire et des Arts de la France." 



Fig. 325. The Personification of Music. Fac-simile of a Wood Engraving in the "Margarita 

 Philosophica " (Bale Edition, 4to, 1508). 



All these songs, be it remembered, which had no known authors, or which 

 were adopted by the great anonymous and collective poet called the People, 

 arc in reality popular songs, and must not be confounded with the individual 

 productions of written poetry, many of them very indifferent in quality. 



