Note 675 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Their performances are thus described by a French poet who wrote in the year 1230:
C'il juggleurs in pies esturent, S'ont vielles et harpes prisses Chansons, sons, vers, et reprises, Et gestes chante nos ont. Du Cange, in voce Joculator.
See also sir John Hawkins's History of Music, vol ii. 44.