{"id":154325,"date":"2022-09-26T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/poem-of-the-week-to-mistress-margaret-hussey-by-john-skelton"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:00:09","slug":"poem-of-the-week-to-mistress-margaret-hussey-by-john-skelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/poem-of-the-week-to-mistress-margaret-hussey-by-john-skelton","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the week: To Mistress Margaret Hussey by John Skelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Mistress Margaret Hussey &#8216;Gentle as falcon \/ Or hawk of the tower.&#8217; Photograph: incamerastock\/Alamy Merry Margaret, As midsummer flower, Gentle as a falcon Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness; So joyously, So maidenly, So womanly Her demeaning In every thing, Far, far passing That I can indite, Or suffice to write Of Merry Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower. As patient and still And as full of good will As fair Isaphill, Coriander, Sweet pomander, Good Cassander, Steadfast of thought, Well made, well wrought, Far may be sought Ere that ye can find So courteous, so kind As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower. John Skelton (c.1463-1529) became a tutor to the future King Henry VIII and, after taking holy orders, he was the rector of Diss, Norfolk, until his death. He stands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An implausibly perfect list of womanly virtues is kept afloat with genial buoyancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,19,26],"class_list":["post-154325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-gold"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}