Obs. [ad. It. canzone song: see next. In very common use in 17th c.] A song.
1590. Lodge, Euphues Gold. Leg., in Shaks. Wks. (Halliw.), VI. 37. My canzon was written in no such humor.
1597. Middleton, Wisdom of Sol., Wks. V. 459. Deepest canzons of lament.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., I. xiv. To frame Angelick strains, and canzons sing.
1687. Winstanley, Lives Eng. Poets, 99. Nicholas Breton, a writer of Pastoral Sonnets, Canzons, and Madrigals.
