To Mistress Margery Wentworth
1460?-1529
WITH margerain gentle,
The flower of goodlihead,
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 goodlihead,
Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhead.
DayPoems Poem No. 33
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/33.html">To Mistress Margery Wentworth by John Skelton</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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