4.Blackface minstrelsy was this really… gross performance practice in which white musicians would black up their face and lampoon Black musical traditions for a white audience.
6.This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained herein, amid the design that I set before you, all those things which it may seem that he himself devised or added.
7.Still the young Italian's eye turned sidelong upward; and it really seemed as if the touch of genuine, though slight and almost playful, emotion communicated a juicier sweetness to the dry, mechanical process of his minstrelsy.
8.You may need to explain to the student that a " hawthorn" is a tree; " crop" is another word for throat; " quoth" is another word for said; " minstrelsy" is singing; and " to abhor" means to hate.