| He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode. |
| The 1647 edition contains two poems, The Return and palinode, which stand to each other in a curious relation. |
| Afterwards, falling in love with a lady, he closes these sonnets with a palinode. |
| In his palinode Socrates corrects both his message and his character. |
| They say that he was blinded for writing abuse of Helen and recovered his sight after writing an encomium of Helen, the Palinode, as the result of a dream. |
| But any poem of retraction can be called a palinode these days without following this form. |
