And tomorrow, Cor, he added, shalt come over all the castle with me and see the estres and mark all its strength and weakness: for it will be thine to guard when I'm gone.

I'd like a Bud, please.

Yet, it's still around, apparently revived in another form with Islamorealism.

https://archive.org/details/reliquesancient06percgoog/page/n21/mode/1up page xv The Minstrels ſeem to have been the genuine ſucceſſors of the ancient Bards, who united the arts of Poetry and Muſic, and ſung verſes to the harp, of their own compoſing. […] https://archive.org/details/reliquesancient06percgoog/page/n22/mode/1up page xvi [T]he Minſtrels continued a diſtinct order of men, and got their livelihood by ſinging verſes to the harp, at the houſes of the great.