l'envoi

Example Sentences

• "TRAGICALL Tales tranſlated by TVRBERVILE In time of his troubles out of ſundrie Italians, vvith the Argument and Lenuoye to eche Tale"
• "Some enigma, ſome riddle, come, thy Lenuoy begin."
• "And then the women (as I haue giuen the bride her inſtructions) to breake in vpon him, i’ the l’enuoy."
• "I kept that for the Lenvoy; 'tis the daughter / Of your enemy, Duke Gonzaga. […] Long since I look'd for this Lenvoy."
• "His Complaint of Venus, Cuckow and Nightigale, and La belle Dame ſans Mercy, Have all a l’Envoy, and belong to this ſpecies of French verſe. His l’Envoy to the Complaint of Venus, or Mars and Venus, ends with theſe lines, v. 79. / And eke to me it is a grete penaunce, / Sith rime in Engliſh hath ſoche ſcarcite, / To follow word by word the curioſite / Of granſonflour of them that make in Fraunce."
• "Other poets have given us their literary productions as the subject of criticism, impersonally as it were, and generally speaking, abstracted from their ordinary habits and feelings; and all, or almost all, might apply to their poetical effusions, though in somewhat a different sense, the l’envoy of Ovid. / Sine me, Liber, ibis in urbem."