With his worm-eaten maw,
And his ghastly jaw
Gasping aside,
Naked of hide,
Neither flesh nor fell.

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Upon a Dead Man's Head (l. 14-18). . . Seven Centuries of Poetry; Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. A. N. Jeffares, ed. (1955) Longmans, Green & Company.)

And with the corner of a Creed,
The more shall be your meed.

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Phyllyp Sparowe (l. 15-16). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

There riseth a new creation
Of the same fashion
Without alteration,

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Phyllyp Sparowe (l. 258-260). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

For the soul of Philip Sparrow
That was late slain at Carrow,
Among the Nunnes Black.

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Phyllyp Sparowe (l. 7-10). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

No man may him hide
From Death hollow-eyed,

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Upon a Dead Man's Head (l. 10-11). . . Seven Centuries of Poetry; Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. A. N. Jeffares, ed. (1955) Longmans, Green & Company.)

With margeran gentle,
The flower of goodlihood,
Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhood.

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. To Mistress Margery Wentworth (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)

My maiden Isabel,
Reflaring rosabel.
The fragrant camomel;
The ruddy rosary,
The sovereign rosemary,
The pretty strawberry;
The columbine, the nept,
The jelofer well set,
The proper violet:

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. To Mistress Isabel Pennell (l. 4-12). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

Place bo!
Who is there, who?

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Phyllyp Sparowe (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)

Merry Margaret,
As midsummer flower,
Gentle as falcon
Or hawk of the tower:

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. To Mistress Margaret Hussey (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)

The bird of Araby,
That potentially
May never die,

(John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Phyllyp Sparowe (l. 230-232). . . Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)