fyttes

The romance of _Thomas of Erceldoune_ is a poem in three "fyttes" or sections, which is preserved wholly or in part in five manuscripts, of which the earliest may be dated about 1435.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

For the present he contents himself with two or three more stories (or, rather, one in several "fyttes"), which reduce the wildest of the _Nights_ to simple village tales -- of an island where lions are hunted with a provision of virgins, chanticleers, and small deer on an elaborately ruled system; of a mountain full of wild beasts, witches, lovely nymphs, savages, and an enchanter at the top.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Sitting in my well-stuffed chair, my elbows on the cushioned arms, the conversation of Lake and the Town Clerk now and then grew faint, and their faces faded away, and little 'fyttes' and fragments of those light and pleasant dreams, like fairy tales, which visit such stolen naps, superseded with their picturesque and musical illusions the realities and recollections of life.

Wylder's Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

Sitting in my well-stuffed chair, my elbows on the cushioned arms, the conversation of Lake and the Town Clerk now and then grew faint, and their faces faded away, and little ‘fyttes’ and fragments of those light and pleasant dreams, like fairy tales, which visit such stolen naps, superseded with their picturesque and musical illusions the realities and recollections of life.

Wylder's Hand 2003

In his first crudities, fyttes and tilts with thought, both knight and field are covered with a cloth of gold so dazzling that the crystalline lenses of our common vision are in danger of dissolution, and we vainly hope for page or dame who will whisper to us the magic word that shall dispel this scene of enchantment.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The acts or fyttes of the quarrel between Byron and Southey occur in the following order.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Oxford University and City Herald announced The Improvisatore, In three fyttes, With Other Poems by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Introduction 1821