...which it may exhibit. FREDERICK LOCKER. LYRA ELEGANTIARUM. ••IMl" r. 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,...

...and bites hard. Nearly four centuries ago an English poet addressed an English maiden thus : — " Merry Margaret As Midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower." Was there quiet irony in the Rev. John Skelton's lyrical address to Mistress Margaret Hussey? The falcon...

...badness, So Joyously, So maidenly, Sii woroaiily, Her demeaning In everything, Far, far passin?, Thal I can indite, Or suffice to write Of merry Margaret, As Midsummer flower. Gentle as falcon, Or bawk of the tower; As patient and sull. And as full of good will, As fair biphll. Colander, Sweet Pomander,'...

...HUSSEY. MERRY Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower ; With solace and eart forevermair Until the day I dee ! 0 that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cri Hor demeaning, — In everything Far, far passing That I can indite, Or suffice to write, Of merry...

...HUSSEY. MERRY Margaret, As midsummer flower, ' Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower ; With solace and nd to madden, Is the ripe ruddy glory that rushes....then that mortals pant while they gaze on Bacchus' pl everything Far, far passing That I can indite, Or suffice to write, ' Of merry Margaret, As midsummer...

...against fact is a sin against taste. Skelton, a satirical poet of Henry the Eighth's day, thus writes: " Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower; Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower." Our idea of falcon and hawk is such that we would rather be excused from wedding a lady of that ravenous...

...to term himself, had his softer mood too. It was upon him when he wrote those exquisite lines to ' Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower ; With solace of gladness, Much mirth aud no madness ; All good and no badness. * * * • Steadfast...

...Hussey. Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower ; With solace and p-oil, baited my fl everything, Far, far passing That I can indite, Or suffice to write, Of Merry Margaret, As midsummer...

...— " 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...midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon, Or hawk of the tower." It will be observed that Skelton, while taking four syllables for the basial structure of his lines,...

...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." The most remarkable features of Skelton's poetry are his marvellous ear for rhyme, the keenness of...