canzon

plural canzons

1. obsoleteA song.

   Truſt me Swayne (quoth Rosader) but my Canzon was written in no ſuch humour: […]

   1590, T[homas] L[odge], Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G. and John Busbie

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   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: […]

   1597, Thomas Middleton, The Wisdome of Solomon Paraphrased, London: […] Valentine Sems, […]

   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.

   1633, P[hineas] F[letcher], The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and Other Poeticall Miscellanies, [Cambridge]: […] [T]he Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, page 4

   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.

   1687, William Winstanley, The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or The Honour of Parnassus in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of Above Two Hundred of Them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II., London: […] H. Clark, for Samuel Manship […], page 99