Both Uses
ballad
in
Love's Labour's Lost
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- Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?†
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- The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 'tis not to be found; or if it were, it would neither serve for the writing nor the tune.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(ballad) a song (or poem) that tells a story or expresses strong feelings -- typically slow in tempo
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)