What does canzon mean?
Canzon means (obsolete) A song..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A song..
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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Canzon means (obsolete) A song..
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Truſt me Swayne (quoth Rosader) but my Canzon was written in no ſuch humour: […]
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