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Igenlode Wordsmith
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Why on earth do the notes gloss "margents" (margins), yet not "purfling" ("Here in green meadows sits eternal May, purfling the margents")?
Apparently it refers to elaborate border patterning (according to the OED) - but surely the editor can't assume that his readers are familiar with purfled margins! (Even my vocabulary doesn't encompass that one...)
— Nov 04, 2025 05:17PM
Apparently it refers to elaborate border patterning (according to the OED) - but surely the editor can't assume that his readers are familiar with purfled margins! (Even my vocabulary doesn't encompass that one...)
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Igenlode Wordsmith
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"Fair daffodils, we weep to see you haste away so soon", "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" - I hadn't realised these famous (and parodied by an earlier generation) 'quotes' were also Herrick!
— Nov 02, 2025 05:28AM
Igenlode Wordsmith
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Oops - I dozed off in the bath, and got water all along the spine of this...
— Oct 31, 2025 12:59PM
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I didn't realise that Herrick wrote Cherry-ripe!
I was just thinking that a lot of his lyrics are reminiscent of madrigals...
— Oct 17, 2025 11:23AM
I was just thinking that a lot of his lyrics are reminiscent of madrigals...
