Versos English Robert Mannyng Praise of Women

English poem

Praise of Women

by (1275–1338)

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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.