Note 501 — Chapter V
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As did Shakespeare (cp. Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon, Berlin, 1902, vol. ii.) and several of the lesser poets. French refrains were also sometimes used, as in Greene's Never too Late (Infida's song):
"Wilt thou let thy Venus di, N'oseres vous mon bel amy? Adon were unkinde say I, Je vous en prie, pitie me: N'oseres vous mon bel, mon bel, N'oseres vous, mon bel amy?"
See S. Lee, French Renaissance in England, Oxford, 1910, p. 243. Sylvester even ventured to write poems in French.