Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.61^3.

To the King'sTheatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I ever saw in my life.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry, 29 Sep.

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

-Skelton,John
  The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.