Note 204 — SOME PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF QUEEN ANNE BOLEIGNE.
Reading edition
It is presumed that the allusion is here to Sir Thomas Wyatt’s verses entitled “A description of such a one as he would love:”
A face that should content me wonderous well, Should not be faire, but lovely to behold: Of lively loke, all griefe for to repel With right good grace, so would I that it should Speak, without words, such words as none can tell; Her tresse also should be of cresped gold. With wit and these perchance I might be tide And knit againe the knot that should not slide. Songes and Sonettes, 8vo. 1557, p. 35. 2.