With margerain gentle,
The flower of goodlihead,
Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhead.
Plainly I cannot glose;
Ye be, as I divine,
The pretty primrose,
The goodly columbine.
Benign, courteous, and meek,
With wordes well devised;
In you, who list to seek,
Be virtues well comprised.
With margerain gentle,
The flower of goodlihead,
Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhead.
(C) John Skelton
03/06/2017
Best Poems of John Skelton
- Arectyng My Syght
- Womanhod Wanton Ye Want
- My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower
- A Lawde And Prayse
- The Bowge Of Courte
- An Elegie On Henry, Fourth Erle Of Northumberlande
- Knoledge, Acquayntance, Resort, Fauour With Grace
- Excerpt From Speke, Parrot
- Mannerly Margery Milk And Ale
- With Lullay, Lullay
- Colyn Cloute
- Cuncta Licet Cecidisse Putas Discrimina Rerum
- The Book Of Phillip Sparrow
- To Mistress Margery Wentworth
- Vppon A Deedmans Hed
- From Colin Clout
- Go, Piteous Heart
- To Mistress Margery Wentworth -2
- The Auncient Acquaintance, Madam, Betwen Vs Twayn
- The Tunning Of Elenor Rumming
- To Mistress Isabell Pennell