Praise of Women

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Praise of Women
by Robert Mannyng
The poem is published in Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (page 10) and the following edition Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 (page 13).


[poem]

NO thyng is to man so dere
As wommanys love in gode manere.
A gode womman is mannys blys,
There here love right and stedfast is.
There is no solas under hevene,
Of alle that a man may nevene,
That shuld a man do so moche glew
As a gode womman that loveth trew.
Ne derer is none in Goddys hurde
Than a chaste womman with lovely worde.


[notes]nevene] name. glew] gladness. hurde] flock.