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Ballades and Rhymes

by Andrew Lang

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Epigraph

“Hom, c’est une ballade!”

—Vadius.

“Rondeaux, Ballades,
Chansons dizains, propos menus,
Compte moy qu’ilz sont devenuz:
Se faict il plus rien de nouveau?”

Clement Marot, Dialogue de deux Amoureux.

“I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably.”

A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. sc. 3.

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