BALLADE

Old Fr. form of verse consisting of three stanzas and an envoi, and containing not more than three or four rhymes. It came into vogue during reign of Charles V., and was very succe fully employed at different periods by Alain Chartier, Henry Baude, Franco is de Banville. The ballade form has been used in England by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and amongst later writers by Swinburne, Austin Dobson, and Andrew Lang. Scot. artist and author; did much for modern art of staining gla ; carried out staining of windows of House of Lords:: Eng. serjeant-at-law; famous for prosecution of Franz Miiller (1864), and his defence of the Tichborne claimant (1871). Was a conspicuous figure in the literary and theatrical circles of his day. fishing village, Ayrshire, Scotland. Scot. publisher; produced Scott’s Border Minstrelsy, 1802; removed to Edinburgh, and with his bro. John (1774-1821), established firm of B. & Co., in which Scott had half the shares; final bankruptcy, 1826.