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roundelay|ˈraʊndəleɪ|
Also 6–7 -laye, 7 -laie; 6 rundelaye, -ley, roundley, 7 roundellay.
[ad. F. rondelet roundlet, f. rondel roundel, with the ending assimilated to lay n.4]
1. A short simple song with a refrain.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 105, I beseeche you marke my roundelaye. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 37 Menaphon..began, after some melodie, to carroll out this roundelay. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. To Rdr., Shepheards..singing roundelaies, to their gazing flockes. a1664K. Philips Poems (1667) 189 At our Feast he gets the Praise, For his enchanting Roundelayes. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. 688 Who, listning, heard him while he search'd the Grove And loudly sung his roundelay of love. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xliii, The sister of the youth..sung alternately with her brother—'twas a Gascoigne roundelay. 1808Scott Marm. iii. viii, Now must I venture, as I may, To sing his favourite roundelay. c1860Longfellow Whither? v, The water-nymphs that are singing Their roundelays under me. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile 449 The two crews met every evening to smoke, and dance, and sing their quaint roundelays together.
b. transf. A bird's song or carol.
1641Beedome Poems, Constant Maid lix, The winged birds..Each one by turne did sing his rounde-lay. 1653Walton Angler iii. 78 The Cuckoe and the Nightingale..with their pleasant roundelayes bid welcome in the Spring. 1813Scott Rokeby ii. xvi, While linnet, lark, and black⁓bird gay, Sing forth her nuptial roundelay. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn i. Poet's T. xviii, The whirr Of meadow-lark, and her sweet roundelay.
†c. The competitive singing of such songs. Obs.
1655Vaughan Silex Scint. (1858) 242 Here many garlands won at roundel-lays Old shepherds hung up in those happy days, From Daphnis.
2. The music of a song of this type.
1593–1600Breton Daff. & Prim. Wks. (Grosart) I. 16/1 The muses all haue chose a settinge-place To singe and play the sheppherdes rundeley. 1604― Passionate Shepherd ibid. 5 While yee tune your pipes to play But an idle Roundelay. 1820Keats Isabella xxxii, The breath of Winter..plays a roundelay Of death among the bushes and the leaves.
3. A kind of round dance.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxi. 135 When as they fel to Rowndelaies,..Not Satires, or the Naiades, were halfe so nimble. a1633T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. ii. xxxvi. (1642) 288 They fell a dancing, men and women mixtly together,..a ridiculous roundelay. c1800H. K. White Poems (1837) 126 Dance, dance away, the jocund roundelay! 1867Longfellow tr. Dante, Inf. vii. 24 So here the folk must dance their roundelay.
†b. A fairy circle or ring. Obs.—1
a1635Corbet Poems (1648) 8 Those Rings and Roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed..on many a grassy plain. |