A Peace Cleric, a Hexblade, and a (depending on the player) a Rogue makes for a pretty powerful party, so I can understand your DM throwing a lot at you guys. Unfortunately most Bards don't get a lot in terms of defense (Swords and Valor are exceptions). Consider some possibilities:
o Take the Mirror Image spell, which is an optional Bard spell in Tasha's.
o Take the Moderately Armored feat. This will give you medium armor *and* shield proficiency, a huge jump in your AC. Hopefully you have at least 14 Dex. Downside: You're spending your precious ASI on it.
o A single dip into Hexblade warlock. All the benefits of Moderately Armored, plus you can use a longsword and apply your Charisma to attacks and damage, and you can take Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade. And you get Warlock cantrips and 1st level spells, and you get 1 first level spell slot that comes back on a short rest. ***AND***! you can take the Shield spell! With this, NOW you have really, really good damage cantrip option (which Bards lack) with BB and GFB, but you're also doing melee, which Hexblade makes perfectly reasonable. Downside: Your Bard spell progression and spell slots falls behind 1 level.
o A single dip into Cleric, perhaps the Forge Domain. Medium armor and shield (I'm assuming you don't have high strength, so I won't talk about heavy armor), plus some really nice Cleric cantrips and 1st level spells. With Forge Domain you can imbue your armor or shield with +1 magic. You won't lose spell slot progression, but you will fall behind one level in Bard spell level progression.
Edit: In the meantime, consider being less generous with your inspiration dice and save them for yourself - Cutting Words. That can shave off a fair amount of damage that you're taking.
All excellent recommendations. I had not thought of the forge cleric but that would help a bard survive a bit more and potentially get out of some jams and whatnot.
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All excellent recommendations. I had not thought of the forge cleric but that would help a bard survive a bit more and potentially get out of some jams and whatnot.