a kind of ancient poem, thus termed, according to Menage, from its form; because it turns back again to the first verse, and thus goes round. This poem is little known among us; but is very common among the French, who call it roudeau. It consists commonly of 13 verses, eight whereof are in one rhyme, and five in another. It is divided into couplets; at the end of the second and third whereof, the beginning of the roundelay is repeated, and that, if possible, in an equivocal or pausing sense.

ROUSSILLON, a province of France, in the Pyrenees, bounded on the east by the Mediterranean Sea, on the west by Cerdagne, on the north by Lower Languedoc, and on the south by Catalonia, from which it is separated by the Pyrenees. It is a fertile country, about 50 miles in length and 25 in breadth, and remarkable for its great number of olive-trees. Perpignan is the capital town.