John Skelton — To Mistress Margery Wentworth

WITH margerain gentle,        &nbsp The flower of goodlihead, Embroidered the mantle        &nbsp Is of your maidenhead. Plainly I cannot glose;        &nbsp Ye be, as I divine, The pretty primrose,        &nbsp The goodly columbine. Benign, courteous, and meek,        &nbsp With wordes well devised; In you, who list to seek,        &nbsp Be virtues well comprised. With margerain gentle,        &nbsp The flower of goodlihead, Embroidered the mantle        &nbsp Is of your maidenhead.