ditties

The Greeke Poets who made musicall ditties to be song to the lute or harpe, did vse to linke their staues together with one verse running throughout the whole song by equall distance, and was, for the most part, the first verse of the staffe, which kept so good sence and conformitie with the whole, as his often repetition did geue it greater grace.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The Greeke Poets who made musicall ditties to be song to the lute or harpe, did vse to linke their staues together with one verse running throughout the whole song by equall distance, and was, for the most part, the first verse of the staffe, which kept so good sence and conformitie with the whole, as his often repetition did geue it greater grace.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

Bishop, the "Prayer-meeting Bands" were still in full force, and the "ditties" were not very unpopular with the minority who did

Unwritten History 1919

Coronata_, I am not aware that any of Munday's ballads are extant -- unless indeed the "ditties" in _The Banquet of daintie Conceits_ may be regarded as such; but there is no doubt that they were numerous, and hence, in the present passage, he is termed the "immediate heyre" of

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Her songs aren't mere pop ditties to enjoy on the bus, they're songs to get you thinking, to make you question your core values and re-think the way you live your life.

This week's new singles releases 2011

The local group plays songs that don't command attention but rather earn it, quick and quirky ditties that are also plenty catchy.

Nightlife agenda David Malitz 2010

The OSS even had begun to accumulate its own ditties and songs.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Just five months later, the band's bubblegum soul scored again with puppy-love ditties The Love You Save and ABC.

Michael Jackson's artistic legacy spans the decades 2009

Alight with enthusiasm, Professor Kaplan's conversation ranges from the ribald ditties sung by bakers kneading the dough in 18th-century France to recent moves for millers to supply flour in smaller and easier-to-lift sackfuls so as to encourage female recruits to the profession.

The Best Baguette in Paris Lennox Morrison 2011