12 AUGUST 1905, Page 16

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECPATOH."1

SIR,—May I be permitted to finish the quotation from the old rhyme in the article on "The Drought in the North" in the Spectator of August 5th ? The rhyme is found in "The Bole of St. Albans," the second book printed there in English in 1486 (the previous books were printed in Latin), and runs as follows :-'- "Far from thy kinsmen keste thee, Wrath not thy neighbour next theo, In a good corn country thruste thee, And sit down, Robyn, and rest thee."