Love
To Mistress Margery Wentworth
Love
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.
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MLA
Skelton, John. “To Mistress Margery Wentworth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/skelton/0/.
Chicago
Skelton, John. “To Mistress Margery Wentworth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/skelton/0/.
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