Middle English roundels were written by Hoccleve and Lydgate.
Three other roundelsof Chaucer on the scheme last mentioned have been published lately by Skeat in Chaucer's Minor Poems, pp.
But there are only a few roundels of his in existence; one of these occurs in The Assembly of Fowles (ll.
Four Roundels occur; three in Merciless Beautee; and one in the Parliament of Foules.
The highest story contains the large single windows which light the cross arm and the gynecaeum, the former flanked by two semicircular niches, the latter by two brick roundels with radiating joints.
The eastern capital is in the basket form with roundelson the four faces.
Only escalloped coudières and roundels protect the upper arms and scale-like plates of steel the lower; these vambraces may possibly be of cuir-bouilli, so prevalent at the period.
The shoulders were generally left unprotected, except by the mail of the hauberk, but occasionally roundels are used similar to those of the Cyclas era.
At the shoulder and elbow bends, roundels of plate appear, and over the shoulder are ailettes marked with the Cross of St. George.
The body is protected by a leathern jacque having roundels at the shoulders with crude brassarts, coudières, and vambraces, possibly of leather.
The roundels at the elbows are fixed by arming-points, the helmet is less elaborately decorated, the method of fastening the sword is old-fashioned, and he wears pryck spurs and not roundels as shown in the Creke brass.
The upper portions of the arm are defended by demi-brassarts with coudières, while roundels fashioned to represent the heads of lions protect the joints of the limbs.
At times roundels were used, and occasionally a running pattern in gold or embroidery.
The latter is known to have shown a figure with a gorget of plate similar to Sir Hugh Hastings, with roundels at the shoulders and elbows.
The pryck spur is still in vogue, and from the roundels the small projecting spikes should be noticed.
Just so the lyrists of fields and woods pipe their roundels and chansons through the chink in their throats, save that in the bird's case the mouth and tongue are anterior to the whistling aperture.
In the Buckeye state these birds were disposed to be sociable, often selecting their dwellings near our suburban homes, visiting our dooryards, singing their blithe roundels on the ridge of the barn roof or a post of the garden fence.
In the door there are roundels above and quarries beneath, furnishing a neat border to larger stainings, representing marguerites and clover-blossoms on a blue ground.
Shield of arms (a chief and three roundels on the chief) encircled by the Garter, from the brass of Thomas lord Camoys (ob.
Armorial Bearings of Ladies; Use of Lozenges and Roundels as variant forms of Shields; Arms of Men on Lozenges; Combinations of Shields with Lozenges and Roundels of Arms on Seals and in Embroideries.
II); and Edmund duke of York a silver label with three red roundels on each piece (pl.
If the charges be, for example, three roses or three roundels or three lions (fig.
But seals are not the only authorities for the indiscriminate use of roundels and lozenges as well as shields of arms.
Contemporary with Parnel Bensted's seal are two others in which roundels are used instead of lozenges.
The waits' collars at Bristol date from the reign of Queen Mary, and are composed of pierced roundels containing alternately the letters CB.
The other seal is similarly arranged, but has in the middle a large shield of d'Amory, between roundels of arms of the lady's other husbands above and below, and of Clare for her father or herself on either side.
This has the Sturmy shield in the middle, between two roundels of the Hussey arms, and a third roundel above with the tenure horn of Savernake Forest (pl.
What more remains to be said about roundels and quarry windows is reserved for the chapter on "Domestic Glass.
In Germany the place of quarries was supplied by roundels (page 292) unpainted.
The adaptation of roundels to the circular shape is shown in the portion of a round window from Santa Maria Novella.
The Italians, who also used roundelsin place of quarries, often let colour into the interstices between them, and also little painted squares or paterae of white and stain.
Palmeirim; this would explain the origin of two of his roundels which are clearly founded on passages in the romance.
From this period date the greater part of his roundelsand sonnets, some of the odes and nearly all the eclogues.
The incidents depicted in the roundels are St. John's Apotheosis, Martyrdom, and Sojourn on Patmos, and the Raising of Drusiana.
The Roundels of the Evangelists are modelled with boldness and severity, qualities which one is not surprised to find in Donatello, but which are here emphasised, for they stand out in spite of the coats of whitewash.
Trevoux, and relates to the latter rondeau of thirteen lines) is quite useless as applied to roundels written in Middle English.
With the Ordinaries we may take the Roundels or Pellets, disks or balls of various colours.
Devereux bore "Gules a fesse silver with three roundels silver in the chief.
Courtenay, earl of Devon, bore "Gold three roundels gules with a label azure.
Wake bore "Gold two bars gules with three roundels gules in the chief.
There was a witch who then foretold that those three ripe-red roundels of the Courtenays were blood spots from three brothers' hearts, and all should die under the axe.
At the peak of the largest tent, high upon the staff, floated gently in the early breeze an emblazoned standard, bearing the blood-red three roundels of the Courtenays.
The wooden fruit-trencher was not, however, wholly disused during the seventeenth century; and amongst sets of roundels which may be assigned to the reign of James I.
Four roundelsare shown in the plate given in Fox's History of Pontefract, "from a drawing in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries.
The knop has eight roundelswith niello crosses crossleted; on the stem are saints in niello in vesicas.
On one of the wells in the cloister is the date 1453; they are decorated with roundels bearing various devices.
Opposite the Loggia, on the other side of the street, is a highly decorative lintel, which appears to have belonged to a palace of the Cippico, with two contemplative lions and half-length angels in roundels with scrolls.
By the Puritans the beechen roundels thus decorated were regarded with especial dislike, and they returned to the use of the unadorned trencher and “godly platter.
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