pastourelle

There was also what was called the pastourelle, a make-believe shepherd's song.

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

It seems less a city song here and more a pastourelle.

The Boys of Fairhill 1976

Six hundred years ago, in the velvet dusk of a summer night, Sir John Froissart galloped this way, by plaguey bad roads, and he beguiled the tedium of his journey by making an excellent new pastourelle.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

[130] The mediaeval _pastourelle_ is no doubt to some extent conventional and "made in moulds."

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

In other words, the "romance" is supremely presented in English, and in the much-abused fifteenth century, by the _Nut-Browne Maid_, the "pastourelle" by Henryson's _Robene and Makyne_.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

In the _pastourelle_ -- a form much cultivated -- a knight and a shepherdess meet; love proposals are made, and find a response favourable or the reverse; witnesses or companions may be present, and take a part in the action.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

When she entered the "Elysee-Montmartre," folks climbed onto the tables to see her do the "sniffling crawfish" during the pastourelle.

L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

_pastourelle_ was in a manner dramatic -- it wanted little adjustment to be quite so; and though the _coda_ of the rustic merry-making is rather artless, it is conceivably admissible.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

_pastourelle_, as explained above, with the more general pastoral theme of the love of shepherd and shepherdess.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

_pastourelle_, sometimes of the rustic ditty, with its monotonous refrain.

Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866