| Other forms of secular polyphonic song, mostly treating the subject of courtly love, evolved at the end of the 13th century. |
| Another foretaste of later Beethoven comes in the sixth movement, which is a set of variations on a courtly theme. |
| But if any courtly romances were composed in eleventh-century Britain and Ireland, none survive. |
| The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black gentry, shrinks from criticizing others. |
| At a speaking engagement later that winter, a silver-haired, courtly gentleman approached us with a big smile. |
| The only people who felt queasy about this courtly ritual were the impressionable, faint-hearted administrators of British tennis. |
