canzonet
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With a canzonet and tabor, Yea, with ho-ho-ho! and our hi-hi-hi!
From Soldier Songs and Love Songs by A. H. (Alexander Hamilton) Laidlaw
Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.
From Canterbury Pieces by Samuel Butler
Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.
From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac
How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
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