fit3 (fit)

[Still used occasionally, as an archaism, and spelled fitt, fitte, fytte; ME. fit, fyt, fytt, fytte, a song, ballad, or story, a division of a song, ballad, or story, As God in heven has gyffen me wit, Shalle I now syng you a fytt Withe my mynstrelsy. Towneley Mysteries, p. 51. Loo, lordes myne, heer is a fit! If ye wol any more of it, To telle it wol I fonde. Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 177. Poems sweet Like separate souls shall fly from it, Each to an immortal futte . Mrs. Browning , Isobel's Child, xxx i. ['This use of fit for a musical air played, not sung, is erroneous, but not uncommon.]