He played the 'cello-"not badly for a Prince," to parody Boccherini's answer to his royal master-and liked to take his part in glees and catches.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
The crew, when they had come near enough, blew trumpet-blasts as a signal of their approach, and sang songs of home-old English glees and madrigals-that had often echoed in the fields, the groves, the farmhouses of Surrey and Kent.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
A hymn or two went off well enough, and then they all listened pretty attentively while a quartet sang some glees.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard