so beautiful that Skelton compared her to Cressida. This comparison may have been a double entendre, because Cressida, as depicted by Chaucer in his work Troilus and Criseyde, was notable as a symbol of female inconstancy. A popular but unverifiable legend suggests several poems were inspired by Margery Wentworth; she is noted as one of the women portrayed in Skelton's Garland of Laurel. She also is reported as having an eponymous poem written in her honour by Skelton. Elizabeth was the mother of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife; Margery was the mother of his third, Jane Seymour. See also Grammarians' War Notes References "John Skelton". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-26. Kinsman, Robert S. (1963). "The Voices of Dissonance: Pattern in Skelton's "Colyn Cloute"". The Huntington Library Quarterly. XXVI, Number 4 Lindvall, Terry (2015). God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert. NYU Press. pp. 69–71. Norton, Elizabeth (2009). Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 9–10. – via Books.google.com. Skelton, John (1992). Brownlow, F.W., ed. The Book of the Laurel. University of Delaware Press. pp. 32–33. – via Books.google.com Skelton, John. Dyce, Alexander, ed. The Poetical Works of John Skelton: With Notes, and Some Account of the Author and His Writings. London: T. Rodd, 1843. 2 vols. Sobecki, Sebastian; Scattergood, John, eds. (2018). A Critical Companion to John Skelton. D.S. Brewer Walker, Greg (2002). John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s. Cambridge University Press. – via Books.google.com Ward, A.W.; Waller, A.R., eds. (1907–21). "Phyllyp Sparowe" The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Volume III. Renascence and Reformation. – via Bartleby.com Weir, Alison (2011). Mary Boleyn: Mistress of Kings. Random House Publishing Group External links The Skelton Project The Poems of John Skelton Complete works in modern spelling with notes, for online reading and multiple download formats at Ex-classics. Skelton's Grave Ware the Hawk Philip Sparrow John Skelton's "Speke Parott" video Alumni of the University of Cambridge British Poets Laureate 1460s births 1529 deaths People from Diss, Norfolk 15th-century English poets 16th-century English poets English male poets Poet priests