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

Barnabe Barnes's _Odes Pastoral_ sestine 2: 'But women will have their own wills, Alas, why then should I complain?' {419} Besides punning words, printers of poetry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries made an effort to italicise proper names, unfamiliar words, and words deemed worthy of special emphasis.

Such, for instance, is the _chanson d'amour_, a form less artfully regulated indeed than the corresponding canzon or sestine of the troubadours, but still of some intricacy.

One sestine, sung by himself among the shepherds of Arcady, I have translated, because it paints the actual conditions of life which drove Sannazzaro into his first exile.[265] But the singularly charmless form adopted, which even Petrarch hardly rendered tolerable, seems to check the poet's spontaneity of feeling.

And as to the _sestine_ of semiquavers, (page 20,) against four of the same notes, we must say that, even when executed with mathematical precision, which is nearly impossible, (would it were quite so!) the result is confusion between the two parts, and, consequently, the effect on the ear painful.

But him sickness had stayed from that assembly; which gave occasion to Histor and Damon, two young shepherds, taking upon them the two friendly rivals’ names, to present Basilius with some other of their complaints eclogue-wise, and first with this double Sestine.