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JOHN SKELTON
37 To Mistress Margery Wentworth r ITH margerain gentle,
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��The flower of goodhhcad, 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 goodhhead, Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhead.
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��5<? To Mistress I sab ell Pennell
!Y saint Mary, my lad},
Your mammy and your daddy Brought forth a goodly baby'
My maiden Isabel, Refhring rosabcl, The flagrant camameJ ;
The ruddy rosary, The sovereign rosemary, The pretty strawberry;
37 margerain] marjoram.
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