Est faict:
La bel-le
Pucel-le," etc.
So Spaniards, Gascons, Provençaux, Italians, rhyme, and all those of the south who have retained their glorious "a's" and "o's".
As for the spirit of it--God bless him!--it is a subject for perpetual merriment to think of such a man's being taken for a true Huguenot and enmeshed, even for a while, in the nasty cobweb of Geneva. But in the last thing I shall quote, when he is Bacchic for the vine, you will see it still more.
NOËL.
Une pastourelle gentille
Et ung bergier en ung verger
L'autrhyer en jouant à la bille