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virelay Now Hist. or arch.|ˈvɪrəleɪ|
Forms: 4–7, 9 virelai (5 virallay, 7 virilai, 9 -lay), 5–6 vyrelay; 4 verelai, 6–7, 9 verilay, 6 ver(re)lay.
[a. OF. virelai (14th c.), an alteration (prob. after lai lay n.4) of vireli: see virly.]
A song or short lyric piece, of a type originating in France in the 14th century, usu. consisting of short lines arranged in stanzas with only two rhymes, the end-rhyme of one stanza being the chief one of the next.
Chiefly current in the Chaucerian period, from c 1575 to 1610, and in the 19th cent.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 423 Balade, He made..manye an ympne for your halydayis That hightyn baladis, roundelys, & vyrelayes. 1390Gower Conf. I. 133 Ek he can carolles make, Rondeal, balade and virelai. 14..Lydg. To Soverain Lady 40 Thus many a roundel and many a virelay In fresshe Englisshe..I do recorde. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour A j, For in that time I made..vyrelayes in the mooste best wyse I cowde. a1500Chaucer's Dreme 975 Som to make verelaies & laies, And som to othere diverse pleyes. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxvi. 30/1 Whiche boke was called the Melyader, conteyninge all the songes, baladdes, rundeaux, and vyrelayes, whiche the gentyll duke had made in his tyme. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 21 But if thou algate lust light virelayes, And looser songs of loue to vnderfong. 1593Drayton Ecl. iii. 55 With daintie and delightsome straynes of dapper Verilayes. 1614J. Davies (Heref.) Eclogue 34 Let thy Virilaies Kill enuious cunning swaines..With enuy. 1700Dryden Flower & Leaf 365 And then the Band of Flutes began to play, To which a Lady sung a Virelay. 1795H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 13 Feb., I received your letter and packet of lays and virelays. 1812D'Israeli Calam. Auth. (1867) 76 Thus he lived, like some old troubadour, by his rhymes, and his chants, and his virelays. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 233 O Dead, ye shall no longer..Drag us backward by the garment thus, To stand and laud you in long⁓drawn virelays! 1880F. Hueffer in Macm. Mag. No. 253. 51 Every one will admit that a halting rondel or virelai is simply an abomination.
transf.1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iii. 5 You chearfull chaunters of the flowring woods,..To mournfull note turn your light verilayes, Death be your song, and Winters hoary sprayes. 1818Milman Samor 171 The merry birds..spring-tide virelays carolling. |