destines

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The sestines and canzons and madrigals of the sonneteers, for all the beauty of their occasional flashes, have nothing like the gracious and sustained majesty of the "Nativity" piece.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

There are a hundred and five sonnets altogether, interspersed with twenty-six madrigals, five sestines, twenty-one elegies, three ‘canzons,’ and twenty ‘odes,’ one in sonnet form. 

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