Guillaume de Machaut’s lyric output comprises around 400 poems, including 235 ballades, 76 rondeaux, 39 virelais, 24 lais, 10 complaintes, and 7 chansons royales, and Machaut did much to perfect and codify these fixed forms. Some of his lyric output is embedded in his narrative poems or « dits », such as Le remède de fortune (« The Cure of Ill Fortune ») which includes one of each genre of lyric poetry, and Le voir dit (« A True Story »), but most are included in a separate, unordered section entitled Les loanges des dames.