"SWEET SUMMER BUDS" 191 



Solis, the Spowse of the Sun, because it sleeps and 

 is awakened with him." 



In "The Rape of Lucrece" Shakespeare also men- 

 tions the flower : 



Her eyes, like marigolds, hath sheathed their light 

 And canopied in darkness sweetly lay 

 Till they might open to adorn the day. 



Very prettily the flower is introduced in Middle- 

 ton and Rowley's "Spanish Gipsy" : 



You the Sun to her must play, 



She to you the Marigold, 



To none but you her leaves unfold. 



Another old English name for the marigold was 

 ruddes and a prettier one was the gold-flower, often 

 called simply the gold or goold. Chaucer talks of 

 "yellow Goldes." The name was still used in Eliza- 

 beth's day. "Colin Clout" has: 



But if I her like ought on earth might read, 

 I would her liken to a crown of lilies, 

 Upon a Virgin bride!s adorned head, 

 With roses dight and goolds and daffodillies. 



In Medieval times the monks gave to the gold- 

 flower the prefix Mary, with the legend that the 

 Virgin Mary loved to wear the flower in her bosom. 

 Hence Shakespeare calls it "Mary-buds." Of Shake- 

 speare's Marigolds Parkinson writes: 



