Without A Rhyme Or Reason (No.VI)

Edmund Spenser is the man believed to have crafted the phrase “without reason or a rhyme”. He was promised payment from Queen Elizabeth I of England of a hundred pounds, a so called, “reason for the rhyme”. Her treasurer, however, considered the sum too much. When seasons passed and Edmund did not receive payment he sent her this quatrain.

 

“I was promis’d on a time,

To have a reason for my rhyme:

But from that time unto this season,

I had neither rhyme or reason.”

 

Queen Elizabeth I immediately ordered her treasurer to send Edmund Spenser his due sum....6/12

 

♫ - William Byrd

 

 

for Flickriver ~ Sophie Shapiro

 

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