text: Merry Margaret,
  As midsummer flower,
  Gentle as a falcon
  Or hawk of the 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,
  Far, far passing
  That I can indite,
  Or suffice to write
  Of Merry Margaret
  As midsummer flower,
  Gentle as falcon
  Or hawk of the tower.
  As patient and still
  And as full of good will
  As fair Isaphill,
  Coriander,
  Sweet pomander,
  Good Cassander,
  Steadfast of thought,
  Well made, well wrought,
  Far may be sought
  Ere that ye can find
  So courteous, so kind
  As Merry Margaret,
  This midsummer flower,
  Gentle as falcon
  Or hawk of the tower.