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15 | <br><font size=-1>Skelton was the poet laureate of England under Henry
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16 | VII;</font>
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17 | <br><font size=-1>he also tutored the young Prince Henry, duke of York,
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18 | who became the infamous Henry VIII.</font></p>
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24 | <p align="left"> </p>
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25 | <blockquote>
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26 | <ul>
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27 | <ul><b><font size=+1> To Mistress
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28 | Margaret Hussey</font>
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29 | <br></b>
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30 | <ul>
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31 | <ul>Merry Margaret,
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32 | <br> As midsummer flower,
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33 | <br>Gentle as falcon
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34 | <br>Or hawk of the tower;
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35 | <br>With solace and gladness,
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36 | <br>Much mirth and no madness,
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37 | <br>All good and no badness;
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38 | <br> So joyously,
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39 | <br> So maidenly,
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40 | <br> So womanly
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41 | <br> Her demeaning
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42 | <br> In every thing,
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43 | <br> Far, far passing
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44 | <br> That I can endite,
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45 | <br> Or suffice to write
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46 | <br>Of merry Margaret,
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47 | <br> As midsummer flower,
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48 | <br>Gentle as falcon
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49 | <br>Or hawk of the tower.
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50 | <br> As patient and as still
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51 | <br> And as full of good will
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52 | <br> As fair Isaphill;
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53 | <br> Colyander,
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54 | <br> Sweet pomander,
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55 | <br> Good Cassander;
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56 | <br>Steadfast of thought,
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57 | <br> Well made, well wrought,
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58 | <br> Far may be sought
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59 | <br> Ere that ye can find
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60 | <br> So courteous, so kind
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61 | <br>As merry Margaret,
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62 | <br> This midsummer flower,
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63 | <br>Gentle as falcon
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64 | <br>Or hawk of the tower.<p> </p>
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65 | <p> </p>
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66 | </ul>
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67 | </ul>
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68 | </ul>
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69 | </ul>
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70 | <b>
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71 | <font size=+1>To Mistress Isabell Pennell</font> </b>
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72 | <ul>By Saint Mary, my lady,
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73 | <br>Your mammy and your dady
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74 | <br>Brought forth a goodly baby!
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75 | <br>My maiden Isabell,
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76 | <br>Reflaring rosabell,
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77 | <br>The flagrant camamell,
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78 | <br>The ruddy rosary,
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79 | <br>The sovereign rosemary,
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80 | <br>The pretty strawberry,
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81 | <br>The columbine, the nepte,
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82 | <br>The jeloffer well set,
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83 | <br>The proper violet;
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84 | <br>Ennewèd your colour
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85 | <br>Is like the daisy flower
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86 | <br>After the April shower;
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87 | <br>Star of the morrow gray,
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88 | <br>That blossom on the spray,
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89 | <br>The freshest flower of May:
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90 | <br>Maidenly demure,
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91 | <br>Of womanhood the lure;
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92 | <br>Wherefore, I make you sure,
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93 | <br>It were an heavenly health,
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94 | <br>It were and endless wealth,
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95 | <br>A life for God himself,
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96 | <br>To hear this nightingale
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97 | <br>Among the birdes smale
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98 | <br>Warbling in the vale,
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99 | <br>Dug, dug, jug, jug,
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100 | <br>Good year and good luck,
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101 | <br>With chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck!
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102 | <br>
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103 | <br>
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104 | <br>
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105 | <br>
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106 | <br>
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107 | <br>
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108 | <ul>
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110 | <ul><b><font size=+1>With Lullay, Lullay, Like A Child</font></b></ul>
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111 | </ul>
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112 | </ul>
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113 | </ul>
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115 | <ul>
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116 | <ul>
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117 | <ul>
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118 | <ul>
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119 | <ul>With lullay, lullay, like a child,
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120 | <br>Thou sleepèst too long, thou art beguiled!
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121 | <p>"My darling dear, my daisy flower,
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122 | <br>Let me," quoth he, "lie in your lap."
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123 | <br>"Lie still," quoth she, "my paramour,
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124 | <br>Lie still hardily, and take a nap."
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125 | <br>His head was heavy, such was his hap,
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126 | <br>All drowsy, dreaming, drowned in sleep,
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127 | <br>That of his love he took no keep,
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128 | <br> With hey, lullay, etc.
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129 | <p>With ba, ba, ba, and bas, bas, bas!
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130 | <br>She cherished him both cheek and chin
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131 | <br>That he wist never where he was;
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132 | <br>He had forgotten all deadly sin!
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133 | <br>He wanted wit her love to win:
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134 | <br>He trusted her payment and lost all his pay;
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135 | <br>She left him sleeping and stale away,
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136 | <br> With hey, lullay, etc.
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137 | <p>The rivers rough, the waters wan;
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138 | <br>She sparèd not to wet her feet.
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139 | <br>She waded over, she found a man
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140 | <br>That halsèd her heartily and kissed her sweet;
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141 | <br>Thus after her cold she caught a heat.
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142 | <br>"My lief," she said, "rowteth in his bed;
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143 | <br>Iwys he hath an heavy head,"
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144 | <br> With hey, lullay, etc.
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145 | <p>What dreamest thou, drunkard, drowsy pate?
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146 | <br>Thy lust and liking is from thee gone;
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147 | <br>Thou blinkard blowboll, thou wakèst too late;
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148 | <br>Behold thou liest, luggard, alone!
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149 | <br>Well may thou sigh, well may thou groan,
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150 | <br>To deal with her so cowardly.
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151 | <br>Ywis, pole-hatchet, she blearèd thine eye!
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152 | <br>
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153 | Quoth Skelton Laureate.
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154 | <br>
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155 | <br> </ul>
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