Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AGAINST WOMEN'S FASHIONS, by JOHN LYDGATE


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First Line: Greatest of virtues is humility
Last Line: By example of her your horns cast away.
Subject(s): Fashion; Humility


Greatest of virtues is humility
As Solomon saith, son of sapience,
Most was accept unto the Deity:
Taketh heed hereof, giveth to his words credence.
How Maria, which had a preminence
Above all women, in Bedlem when she lay
At Christes birth, no cloth of great dispence,
She weared a coverchief, horns were cast away.
Made stable in God by ghostly confidence
This Rose of Jericho, there grew none such in May
Poor in spirit, perfect in patience,
In whom all horns of pride were put away.
Was never clerk by rhetoric nor science,
Could all her virtues rehearse unto this day
Noble Princess of much benevolence
By example of her your horns cast away.









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