Meaning of canzon | Babel Free

Definitions

A song.

obsolete

Examples

“Truſt me Swayne (quoth Rosader) but my Canzon was written in no ſuch humour: […]”

“Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward ſhew of diſcontent: […]”

“And that French Muſes eagle eye and wing / Hath ſoar’d to heav’n, and there hath learn’d the art / To frame Angelick ſtrains, and canzons ſing / Too high and deep for every ſhallow heart.”

“NIcholas Breton, a writer of Paſtoral Sonnets, Canzons, and Madrigals, in which kind of writing he keeps company with ſeveral other contemporary Emulators of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney, in a publiſh’d Collection of ſeveral Odes of the chief Sonneters of that Age.”

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