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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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