FOR COMPETITION No 306 it was time for the annual, ever popular challenge of bouts-rimés, writing a poem with specified rhyme words in order. The rhyme scheme was based on a poem beginning ‘Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green’ by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47), though I substituted ‘bought’ for ‘nought’ to head off archaic diction.
Ann Drysdale spotted the