This is quite sufficient to shew that the definition of a roundelin Johnson's Dictionary (which is copied from the Dict.
But first were chosen foules for to singe, As yeer by yere was alwey hir usaunce To singe a roundel at hir departinge, 675 To do Nature honour and plesaunce.
Roundel consists of thirteen lines, eight having one rime, and five another, is not to the point here, as it relates to the later French rondeau only.
See also, in his Minor Poems, the Complaint of Mars, the roundel in the Parl.
The one certain example is the Roundel included in the Parl.
He had, however, brought with him a few loaves and a roundel of wine, which he had received at a certain monastery.
An example of a roundel at the shoulder will be seen in one of the men-at-arms in the woodcut on p.
Roundel If he could know my songs are all for him, At silver dawn or in the evening glow, Would he not smile and think it but a whim, If he could know?
A Roundel is wrought as a ring or a starbright sphere, With craft of delight and with cunning of sound unsought, That the heart of the hearer may smile if to pleasure his ear A roundel is wrought.
Only Tronda said she saw him flee forth of the window of the westroundel of the auld house, upon a dragon, as she averred.
Roundel from bureau, made for Stanislas Leczinski, King of Poland, now in the Wallace Collection.
A Roundel is wrought as a ring or a star-bright sphere, With craft of delight and with cunning of sound unsought, That the heart of the hearer may smile if to pleasure his ear A Roundel is wrought.
So moves the device whence, round as a pearl or tear, A Roundel is wrought.
Again, Mr. Swinburne's roundel not only has a new rhyme order, A.
The following is a roundelattributed to Chaucer:-- I.
The fountain is a roundel charged with waves of white and blue.
A littleroundel of the arms of a Japanese house was often borne as a crest in the Japanese helmet, stepped in a socket above the middle of the brim.
Conforming to this scheme is a roundel by Lydgate[207]: Rejoice ye reames of England and of Fraunce!
The French roundel of thirteen lines may be looked upon as a preliminary form to the rondeau, which was developed from the roundel at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
In French the roundel was not always confined to one particular metre, nor did it always consist of a fixed number of verses; the same may be said of the English roundels.
Another roundel of four-foot verses, by Lydgate (Ritson, i.
Plate-armour is only represented by the kneecaps, with an occasional roundel and shoulder-plate.
John of Eltham, 1334, has a roundel on the elbow, with articulated plates beneath.
This, like the quaint little roundel belonging to Lord Kenyon (Fig.
Natalie watched Norma rake over the roundel that was the center of the turn-around in the drive from the road, and then remarked: "Where did you find the compost, Norma?
The Italian armet had a roundel or disc to protect the opening at the back of the neck, and a bavier strapped on in front to cover the joining of the two {314} cheek-pieces.
Roundel boy, whose business it is to walk by his master and defend him with his Roundel or umbrella from the heat of the sun.
The fact that the Anglo-Indians called the umbrella a roundel and regarded it as a symbol of sovereignty or nobility indicates that it was not yet used in England; and this Mr. Skeat shows to be correct.
It contains roundel designs in place of the square designs first intended.
The second Roundel seems, on the other hand, to belong to his later life, when he so often alluded to his corpulence.
