Popular Culture
In The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) sang this song in the presence of Katherine of Aragon (Ana Torrent).
In the 2011 BBC television miniseries South Riding, schoolmistress Sarah Burton (played by Anna Maxwell Martin) quotes Westron Wynde, telling her favorite student that, though it was written 400 years ago, it still sounds modern.
The poem is quoted in Madeleine L'Engle's book The Small Rain (1945).
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