Mannerly Margery Milk And Ale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADD EEEEEDD DAFDDDD EEEEEDDDDAy beshrew you By my fay | A |
These wanton clerks be nice alway | B |
Avaunt avaunt my popinjay | C |
What will ye do nothing but play | A |
Tilly vally straw let be I say | A |
Gup Christian Clout gup Jack of the Vale | D |
With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale | D |
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By God ye be a pretty pode | E |
And I love you an whole cart load | E |
Straw James Foder ye play the fode | E |
I am no hackney for your rod | E |
Go watch a bull your back is broad | E |
Gup Christian Clout gup Jack of the Vale | D |
With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale | D |
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Ywis ye deal uncourteously | D |
What would ye frumple me Now fy | A |
What and ye shall be my pigesnye | F |
By Christ ye shall not no hardely | D |
I will not be japed bodily | D |
Gup Christian Clout gup Jack of the Vale | D |
With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale | D |
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Walk forth your way ye cost me nought | E |
Now I have found what I have sought | E |
The best cheap flesh that ever I bought | E |
Yet for His love that all hath wrought | E |
Wed me or else I die for thought | E |
Gup Christian Clout your breath is stale | D |
Go Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale | D |
Gup Christina Clout gup Jack of the Vale | D |
With Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale | D |
John Skelton
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