Sometimes in Welsh pl. englynion. [Welsh.] In Welsh poetry, a stanza (now always a quatrain) of a certain metrical structure.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., iv. 59. In Englins some there were that on their subiect straine. Ibid., note p. 67. Englyns … are couplets interchanged of XVI. & XIIII. feet calld Paladiries & Pensels.
1866. M. Arnold, in Cornh. Mag., March, 289. About 2000 englynion or epigrammatic stanzas.
1875. Anderida, I. xii. 236.
| Drain the goblet, touch the string, | |
| Wreaths of honour, maidens bring; | |
| Bards, your choicest englyns sing. |
