Crossword-Solution: BALLADES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The _Large Testament_ is a hurly-burly of cynical and sentimental reflections about life, jesting legacies to friends and enemies, and, interspersed among these many admirable ballades, both serious and absurd.

Nay, and it was in rhyme that he should learn rhyming: in the verses of his father’s Maître d’Hôtel, Eustache Deschamps, which treated of “l’art de dictier et de faire chançons, ballades, virelais et rondeaux,” along with many other matters worth attention, from the courts of Heaven to the misgovernment of France.

Events had so fallen out while he was rhyming ballades, that he had become the type of all that was most truly patriotic.

This was when Jehan Nègre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and his intimates; or when Baudet Harenc of Chalons made ballades before all these ballade-makers.

These eleven ballades still exist; and one of them arrests the attention rather from the name of the author than from any special merit in itself.