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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/gatogetaway on 2024-11-15 16:37:54+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the phrase “neither rhyme nor reason” is from Edmund Spenser. Elizabeth I told her treasurer to pay Spenser “what is reason.” Edmund wasn’t paid, and wrote “I was promis’d on a time,\To have a reason for my rhyme:\From that time unto this season,\I receiv’d nor rhyme nor reason.” He got paid.