Crossword-Solution: AUBADES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

They seem to have lived poetry, as well as sung it; like the birds who make their marriage beds in the voluptuous trees." "Is that from Shakspere?" "No; from Lope de Vega." "You are deeply read in the lore of antiquity, and the Aubades and Watch-Songs of the old Minnesingers.

Thus we find ourselves in the presence of conditions not unlike those which produced the tomfooleries of the court of Louis XVI and the musettes, bergerettes and aubades of French song.

Wolfram, himself a Minnesinger (indeed the term is loosely applied to all the poets of this time, and may be very properly claimed by Gottfried and Hartmann, though the former has left no lyric), has left us few but very remarkable _aubades_, in which the commonplace of the morning-song, with its disturbance of lovers, is treated in no commonplace way.

But the diffused merits--the so-to-speak "class-merits"--of the poems in general are very high indeed: and when the best of the other lyrics--_aubades_, _débats_, and what not--are joined to them, they supply the materials of an anthology of hardly surpassed interest, as well for the bubbling music of their refrains and the trill of their metre, as for the fresh mirth and joy of living in their matter.

The serenades and aubades are among the most delicate and elegant of all the _canzuni d'amuri_; this is one, which contains a favourite fancy of peasant lovers: Life of my life, who art my spirit and soul, By no suspicions be nor doubts oppressed, Love me, and scorn false jealousy's control-- I not a thousand hearts have in my breast, I had but one, and gave to thee the whole.