...a second Joan 1 No, sure ; she is Pope Innocent^ or none." Thomas Fuller 5 Mistress Margaret Hussey MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower : With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness ; So joyously, So maidenly,...

...Pope you'l say; a second Joan ? No, sure; she is Pope Innocent, or none." Mistress Margaret Hussey MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower : With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness ; So joyously, So maidenly,...

...tower ; With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness ; So joyously, So maidenly, So womanly Her demeaning In every thing,...suffice to write Of Merry Margaret As midsummer flower, J. SKELTON IET Gentle as falcon,-^-£>£•£Or hawk of the tower. As patient and as still And as full...

...that love doth possess ? Do they call virtue, there, ungratefulness ? SIB P. SIDNEY. 921. TO MARGARET MERRY Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower ; With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness ; So joyously, So maidenly,...

...but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Herrkk [1591-1674] TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness; So joyously, So maidenly,...

...to dominate English amorous verse. The most musical of his lyrics bubbles with anecstatic refrain: Merry Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower. More of the universal stuff of the lover's complaint are the following lines, which, however, are distinguishable...

...madness, All good and no badness. So joyously, So maidenly. So womanly, Her demeanour in everything, Far, far, passing, that I can indite, Or suffice to...midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, or hawk of the tower. In the early years of Elizabeth's reign, the duties of Laureate were performed by Richard Edwards (1523...

...tower; * With soliice anil gladness, Much mirth and no madness. All good and no badness, So joyously, So maidenly, So womanly Her demeaning In every thing, Far, far passing That I can endite, Or suffice to write Of merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as a falcon Or hawk of the...

...joyously, So maidenly, So womanly Her demeaning In every thing, Far, far passing That I can endite, Or suffice to write Of merry Margaret, • As midsummer flower, Gentle as a falcon Or hawk of the tower; As patient and as still, And as full of good will, As fair Is;i] ibill;3...

...your prime, You may for ever tarry. Robert Hcrrick [1591-1674] TO MISTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY . • <•' MERRY Margaret As midsummer flower, , • Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness; , So joyously, So maidenly,...