John Skelton - To Mistress Isabell Pennell lyrics

By Saint Mary, my lady, Your mammy and your dady Brought forth a goodly baby ! My maiden Isabel, Reflaring rosabell, The flagrant camamell, The ruddy rosary, The sovereign rosemary, The pretty strawberry, The columbine, the nepte, The jeloffer well set, The proper violet ; Ennewëd your colowre Is like the daisy flower After the April shower ; Star of the morrow gray, The blossom on the spray, The freshest flower of May : Maidenly demure, Of womanhood the lure ; Wherefore I make you sure It were an heavenly health, It were and endless wealth, A life for God himself, To hear this nightingale Among the birdës smale Warbeling in the vale,— Dug, dug, jug, jug, Good year and good luck, With chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck !