| Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole. |
| You have five days to write twelve sestinas, four limericks, and a Bulgarian variant of the virelay. |
| We find, however, two fair examples of the virelay in the poem of Anelida, viz. |
| The virelay seems to have been in vogue in earlier English poetry. |
| The chevalier was singing a virelay which he accompanied by striking Rolande against the branches, then barren of foliage. |
| This may be called a virelay in the English sense, and is possibly what Chaucer intended by that name. |
