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Barnabe Barnes’s Odes Pastoral sestine 2: ‘But women will have their own wills, Alas, why then should I complain?’

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

The canzoni, the sestine, all the lyric metres of Italy and Spain were borrowed from his treasury.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Such, for instance, is the chanson d'amour, a form less artfully regulated indeed than the corresponding canzon or sestine of the troubadours, but still of some intricacy.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George