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Definition of Roundelays
1. roundelay [n] - See also: roundelay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundelays
Literary usage of Roundelays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... shepherd's feasts, meetings on holidays, country dances, roundelays, writing
their names on * trees, true lover's knots, pretty gifts. ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... Whitsun-ales, shepherd's feasts, meetings on holidays, country dances,
roundelays, writing their names on * trees, true lover's knots, pretty gifts. ..."
3. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Israel Gollancz (1893)
"Fair; and fair, &c. f And of his lovely praises ring My merry, merry, merry
roundelays. Amen to Cupid's Curse : They that do change old love for new, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... Whitsun-ales, shepherd's feasts, meetings on holidays, country dances,
roundelays, writing their names on 1 trees, true lover's knots, pretty gifts. ..."
5. The Fleece: A Poem. In Four Books. by John Dyer (1757)
"... And caft about their gibes; and fome apace 710 Whittle to roundelays: their
little ones ... roundelays ..."
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