Praise of Women

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).

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