Minstrel

Roberto, what's your last name?

My last name? Menestrello.

Yes.

And that means minstrel.

It is improbable that the Yaos and Yamwesis borrowed the custom of inserting verse into prose tales from Arab literature, where the intercalated verse is usually of a moral and reflective character.

mr jamieson in illustrations of northern antiquities page three seventy nine preserved a cant-fable called rosmer hafmann or the merman Mr. Motherwell remarks, Minstrelsy, Glasgow, 1827, page Roman numeral 15.

Thus I have heard the ancient ballad of young Béchan and Susie Pye dilated by a storyteller into a tale of remarkable dimensions, a paragraph of prose, and then a screed of rhyme alternately given.

The example published by Mr. Motherwell gives us the very form of Aucassin and Nicolette surviving in Scotch folklore.