1870 poem

“…O, come with pipe and tabour, girls and boys,
And smite the timbrel, singing to their praise.
That one of twain are made ; each best obeys,
Who the Creator's bounty beat enjoys…”

'THE IN-GATHERING' by JOHN A HERAUD

'Chaplets from Coquet-side' by Crawhall, Joseph

1873 poem ‘The Dance’

“…The woodland around re-echoes the sound
Of tabor and fife in a gladsome rebound.
All hearts are alive, sweet pleasures revive,
As we trip it and slip it and skip it along….”

‘The Shepherd's Garden’ by Davies, William

“SOUND up the fife and tabor :  
Come join my song, good neighbour,
With fa la la la la….”

‘The Shepherd's Garden’ by Davies, William

1873 poem ‘Elegy on a Lady whom grief for the death
of her Betrothed Killed’ by Robert Bridges,

‘...Sound flute and tabor, that the bridal be
Not without music, nor with these alone ;..."

1873 opera ‘The Lord  of  Burleigh’
  by Signor Schira
" a rural village at harvest time, is making ready for the celebration of the marriage
of the village belle, with the young landscape-painter…rustic procession and dances to the accompaniment of pipe and tambor…”

Monthly Musical Record

1875 poem ‘ANVIL ECHOES’
“…But since soft words suit flute and tabour —
Words expressing a wooer's mood,
When a lover is earnestly loving his neighbour,…”

'Thistledown' by Alexander Rae Garvie

1878 poem 'Sweet Peace'

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard - Saturday 27 July 1878

1880 a poem about peace: ‘The Modest Postulates’

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 21 September 1880

1880 - ‘Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest’ an operetta composed by W H Birch

“We’ll dance we’ll sing to the pipe and tabor
We’ll sing and dance neath the trysting tree”

Derbyshire Courier - Saturday 17 April 1880

1880 Congregational Schools Concert, St Helens; the first part
of the concert consisted of the ‘May Queen’ written in 1858.Runcorn Examiner - Saturday 18 December 1880

1881 poem Woolwich Gazette - Saturday 13 August 1881

1881 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience:

‘Once more enters the graceful procession,
to the sound of the pipe and tabor’

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Monday 25 April 1881

1881 " The pipe and tabor, after contributing to the amusement of the people for centuries in a manner to ensure
them the admiration, if not of musicians, at least of all advocates of the ' greatest happiness ' principle, have at
length disappeared from among us, and left behind nothing but a name closely associated with the rural pastimes
of the country…”

In ‘notes’ made by Britten, James, 1846-1924 in a reprint of ‘Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, 1686-87’

1881 poem ‘The Villa by the Sea’
“…Has he left his tuneful labour,
And his purpose unfulfill'd?
Mute be every pipe and tabour,
Now the minstrel's voice is still'd !...”

‘The villa by the sea, and other poems’ by Hedderwick, James, 1814-1897

1882 Gilbert, Iolanthe, first night (page 10)

Act I - SOLO-PHYLLIS.
"I'm very much pained to refuse,
But I'll stick to my pipes and my tabors;
I can spell all the words that I use,
And my grammar's as good as my neighbours".

JUGGERNATHS CAR.
“…Slaves, no more in bondage labour,
Cowering 'neath the British sabre,
Praise the God with pipe and tabor :…”

'Under the Pipal' by Dowding, Frederick Townley

In 1885, 'Cries of London, A History', the following is reported:

 "Holloway cheese-cakes" was once one of the London cries; they were sold by a man on horseback; and in
"A Drum's Entertainment," a Comedy, I600, in a random song, the festive character of this district is denoted:

"Skip it and trip it nimbly, nimbly,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily,
Strike up the tabor for the wenches favour,
Tickle it, tickle it, lustily.
Let us be seene on Hygate-Greene,
To dance for the honour of Holloway.
Since we are come hither, let's spare for no leather,
To dance for the honour of Holloway."

1885 Comic sketches by Mr Corney Grain called ‘Election Notes’
at St Georges HallLondon Evening Standard - Friday 13 November 1885

1887 poem ‘Nothing to do’
“…How long shall now the minstrel pipe,
Or sing the song so old and true, "
The harvest for the sickle's ripe,
But, oh ! the labourers are few ? …”

‘Pictures in the fire and other thoughts : in rhyme and verse’
by Dalziel, George, 1815-1902; Kohler Collection of British Poetry

1887 poem ‘Sunshine’
“…Shine out, bright sun, and make the whole earth glad ;
Let pipe and tabor sound the merry strain, —
Let no dull eye be seen, nor visage sad.
When fields are green.
Where ripens golden grain….”

‘Pictures in the fire and other thoughts : in rhyme and verse’
by Dalziel, George, 1815-1902; Kohler Collection of British Poetry

1887 poem 'Sweet Peace'

“…Now young and old with merry hearts shall dwell,—
The pipe and tabor sound their simple strain, —
Full plenty teeming from the earth shall tell
That thou art come to claim thine own again….”

‘Pictures in the fire and other thoughts : in rhyme and verse’
by Dalziel, George, 1815-1902; Kohler Collection of British Poetry

1887 poem ‘Under the Molash Yews’

“…Under the Molash Yews,
When Autumn fills the harvest-fields with labour, —
When Hop-grounds ring with mirth, till pipe and tabor
Sound in the early twilight through green lanes.
Where mothers homeward haste, counting their gains :
Soft fall the chilly dews,
Under our Molash Yews….”

‘Cavalier lyrics: for church and crown' by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth

1887 poem

“…Who will, may foot it here with me :
Come, sound the pipe and tabor !
Welcome awaits and jollity
For stranger as for neighbour.
Fling politics aside, brave boys !.."
‘Cavalier lyrics: for church and crown' by Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth

1888 poem

“…They sent for a fiddler , and piper to play ,
They danced and they sung , untill the break of day ,
Then Jack to his hammock with Betsy did go ,
While the fiddler and the piper played " Rosin, the beau ."

‘Sale of a Wife’ page 3 in ‘Modern Street Ballads’ by John Ashton

1891 poem for May 1st:

chorusReynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 03 May 1891

1891 from the Introduction:
“…we shall have courtly singers, like Lovelace
and Raleigh, and country pleasures of pipe 
and tabor….”

‘Elizabethan songs "in honour of love and beautie,"
collected and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett’

1894 story 'Westminster' by Walter Besant

chapter III
“…There were taverns without the Palace precincts where
the noise of singing never ceased. There was the clashing
of weapons; there were the profane oaths of the soldiers ;
there was the blare of trumpets ; there were the pipe
and tabor of the minstrels and the jesters… what he heard
—and it filled his heart with yearnings indescribable
—was the sound of pipe and tabor… "

The Pall Mall Magazine 1894-11: Vol 4 Iss 19

1894 poem ‘Epilogue’

“…And thus adorned she hies to the dance,
Where pipe and tabor sweetly are sounding ;
Or to the trysting hawthorn,
Where the voice of her sweetheart is music yet sweeter
Than pipe e'en or tabor.”

‘A Century of German lyrics’ by  Freiligrath-Kroeker, Kate

1896 story

“… they went afoot crowned with flowers, and the
pipe and tabour playing before them, and much
people brought them on the way….”

‘The Well at the World's End’ by Morris, William

1896 story

“…There—where that patch of yellow-green grass crept out from the withered oak, I would have a party of dancers tripping it to pipe and tabour;…”

‘The Story Hunter Or Tales Of The Weird And Wild’
by Ernest Richard Suffling

1896 poem ‘In Praise of Picnics’

“…He, the faun of pipe and tabour.
Innocent of earthly labour ;
She, the nymph, his willing neighbour
For one golden afternoon….”

'The ways of the world. Vers de sociéte' by Dick, Cotsford

1897 poem
THE NEW FABLE OF THE BEES. CANTO II.

‘The Argument’
“…Pericles tried them out and in,
But he could never play in time;
And try'd, when it was all lost labour,
To rival him with pipe and tabour;…”

‘Makarony Fables: Fables for Grown Gentlemen’ by John Hall-Stevenson

1897 ‘The I.L.P.’Hull Daily News - Thursday 11 February 1897

1897 poem

“…Without a pipe and tabor
They only mean to labor
To teach each oxhead neighbor.
This is the cause and reason,
At every time and season,
That plays are worse than treason.”

‘The Theatre’ 1897-03: Vol 29

“…Meanwhile twas wonderful to hear
The music of the minstrel quire,
On dulcimer, harp, sackbut, lute,
Pipe, tabor, sawtry, horn, and flute :
The goblets clink, the palace doth ring
With shout and cheer, “ Long live the King.”;…”

‘Legends of the saints’ by Woodward, George Ratcliffe

‘Legends of the saints’ by Woodward, George Ratcliffe

1899 poem ‘Voices of Earth and Heaven'

“… Then fill the time with jollity,
Waste no moment rare,
Not an hour to spare,  
Live and love and feast and sing and play
Nay,'' cry other voices,
Not for this "Should be thy labor.
Pipe and tabor,
Songs and merry dance put thou away.
" They are evil. "
'Tis the devil…”

by Bradbury, Harriet B. (Harriet Bowker)

1842 poem

XXVI.

"Who thinks Hugues wrote for the deaf,
Proved a mere mountain in labour?
Better submit; try again; what's the clef?
'Faith, 'tis no trifle for pipe and for tabor---
Four flats, the minor in F."

Robert Browning: 'Dramatic Lyrics'

1844 Political report:

1846 poem ‘Pleasures of homes : Domestic scenes and affections circle round the hearth’ by Farquharson, Stuart

1847

"leafless trees, has a music of its own — a music that sets the spirit within us dancing, 
as surely as the sound of pipe and tabor."

1847 ‘TALE OF THE TIMES’, GEORGE SOANE

1853 story

“…shepherds and shepherdesses, where innocence is crowned with a garland of the freshest flowers of the field,
and honesty jogs merrily along, enjoying the pleasant minstrelsy of the pipe and tabour…."

‘The Youth of Shakspeare’ by Williams, Robert Folkestone, chapter XVI

1859

"But rude hands rent the vail in twain, 
  And rushing in, a motley crew 
  Profaned the sacred, golden fane, 
  And as the orgies louder grew, 
  The footstep of the past withdrew. 
  And festive rites beneath the moon 
  Were held, and like to concords sweet, 
  The pipe and tabor played in tune, 
  And round and round the jewelled feet 
  Of dancing girls the marbles beat;"

1861

"Ring, ring, village bells,
Cheerily, cheerily!
In their best
All are dressed,
Hastening to the green.
Merrily, merrily !
Sound the pipe and tabor,
Twinkling feet
Measures beat,
Garlands crown the queen".

from PARIS AND PLEASURE or HOME AND HAPPINESS
in FOUR ACTS by CHARLES SELBY

1863 reporting on the Prince of Wales wedding celebrations in a Dorset village:

“pipe and tabor would have matched the dark rafters better
[than the fiddle and tambourine that were actually there] .....”

Dorset County Chronicle - Thursday 19 March 1863

1889 poem

“…When the fierce light makes the far hills unseen,
And the river fades into a silver mist,
By one more gentle than her lambs to loll.
By the water-side, upon a wooded knoll !
To dance to pipe and tabour on the green….”

'Love-Sonnets' by Barlas, John Evelyn

1892 Henry VIII at the Lyceum Theatre, London
Mr Irving has arranged that “a band of fantastically attired Mummers, with pipe and tabor, press through the throng”

as reported in the Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 19 February 1892

1905 Dorset, Sherborne Pageant:
“ a rustic musician, perched on a barrel, keeps time with pipe and tabor to the old English melody
sung by a Dramatic Chorus in Lincoln green”

1907 a play

“Robert Smyth ... accusing the vicar of being a companion of tipplers and fooling away his time
with pipe and tabor, and finally bringing an accusation against him, on account of which the poor
man was cited before the High Commission Court. The charge came to nothing”

'The Parish Clerk' (1907) Ditchfield, P. H.