This metre is much used by our poet; it occurs in the Lyf of St. Cecile, the Clerkes Tale, the original Palamon and Arcite, the Compleint to his Lady, An Amorous Complaint, Complaint unto Pit[`e], Anelida, Of the Wretched Engendring of Mankinde, the Man of Lawes Tale, the Compleint of Mars, Troilus, Words to Adam, Parliament of Foules, the Prioresses Tale, and Lenvoy to Scogan. It occurs thrice repeated, with a refrain, in Against Women Unconstant, Compleint to his Purs, Lak of Stedfastnesse, Gentilesse, and Truth; as well as in the Balade introduced into the Legend of Good Women, ll. 249-269. The Envoy to 'Fortune' also consists of a seven-line stanza, but the arrangement of the rimes is different, there being only two rimes in place of the usual three. This metre was much used by Hoccleve, Lydgate, King James I of Scotland, and others; but is now uncommon. s. 56. TERZA RIMA. We have only a few lines of _terza rima_, in the Compleint to his Lady; see vol. i. p. 76. s. 57. TEN-LINE STANZA. A ten-line stanza occurs in the Compleint to his Lady. Perhaps it was an experiment; and perhaps it is somewhat of a failure. The Envoy to the Complaint of Venus also consists of 10 lines. s. 58. NINE-LINE STANZAS. Chaucer has two nine-line stanzas. Of these, the former has the rimes arranged according to the formula _aabaabbab_, which occurs in Anelida[57]: and two of these stanzas are rendered much more complex, by the use of internal rimes. As this metre is rare, it is perhaps worth noticing that it was employed by Gawain Douglas in his Palace of Honour; and that in the last three stanzas of that poem he even imitates these internal rimes. The other nine-line stanza, with the formula _aabaabbcc_, occurs in the Complaint of Mars. s. 59. OTHER STANZAS. A six-line stanza (_ababcb_), repeated six times, forms the Envoy to the Clerkes Tale. There is another six-line stanza (_ababaa_) in the Envoy to Womanly Noblesse; vol. iv. p. xxvi. A five-line stanza occurs in the Envoy to the Complaint to his Purse. It was copied in the poem called The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. s. 60. In Anelida, 256-271, and 317-324, we have two unique stanzas, with lines of varying lengths; the rime-formula being _aaabaaab_, repeated in the inverse order _bbbabbba_. This may be called a virelay in the English sense, and is possibly what Chaucer intended by that name[58]. s. 61. ROUNDELS. Four Roundels occur; three in Merciless Beautee; and one in the Parliament of Foules. For the structure of the Roundel, see vol. i. p. 524.