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 JOHN SKELTON

The columbine, the nept, The gilliflower well set, The proper violet,

Ennewed your colour Is like the daisy flower After the April shower;

Star of the morrow gray, The blossom on the spray, The fieshest flower of May;

Maidenly demure, Of womanhood the lure ; Wherefore I make you sure,

It were an hevcnly health, It were an endless wealth, A hfe for God himself,

To hear this nightingale, Among the birds bmale, Warbling in the vale, Dug, dug, lug, iug.

Good year and good luck, With chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck '

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��59 To Mistress Margaret Hussey

-ERRY Margaret

As midbummcr flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness;

3<? nept] catammt. ennewed] fresh-tinted.

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