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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Skelton. 1460?1529
30. To Mistress Margery Wentworth
WITH margerain gentle, | |
The flower of goodlihead, | |
Embroidered the mantle | |
Is of your maidenhead. | |
Plainly I cannot glose; | 5 |
Ye be, as I divine, | |
The pretty primrose, | |
The goodly columbine. | |
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Benign, courteous, and meek, | |
With wordes well devised; | 10 |
In you, who list to seek, | |
Be virtues well comprised. | |
With margerain gentle, | |
The flower of goodlihead, | |
Embroidered the mantle | 15 |
Is of your maidenhead. | |
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GLOSS: margerain] marjoram. |