Crossword-Solution: GALLIARD 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Galliard and clinquant she appear'd to give, A serenade or ball to us that grieve, And teach us A LA MODE more gently live.

But in that space When lay she dumb beside her trampled wreath, Like an unburied body mid the tombs, Feeling against her heart life’s bitter probe For life, she saw how children of her race, The many sober sons and daughters, plied, By cottage lamplight through the water-globe, By simmering stew-pots, by the serious looms, Afield, in factories, with the birds astir, Their nimble feet and fingers; not denied Refreshful chatter, laughter, galliard songs.

Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before ’em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall’s picture? Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace.

What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.

The King he daundered thro’ the yaird, He saw the siller shine; “And wha,” quoth he, “is this galliard That wears yon gift o’ mine?” The King has gane till the Queen’s ain bower, An angry man that day; But bye there cam’ May Beatrix And stole the band away.