Possible Clues:

• Stir up water to form ripples
• Rise and fall of one of the French, recently deceased
• Blending lute and second guitar, create ripple
• So to go with the waves will have you behind time at last
• Rise and fall excessively, mostly at end of shore
• Have a wavy movement or appearance
• Move like waves
• Ripple
• Ripple caused by fraudulent mismanagement, French having scarpered
• Rise and fall like waves