John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1460 – 21 June 1529), possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.
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“There riseth a new creation
Of the same fashion
Without alteration,”
—John Skelton (1460?–1529)
“No such sermons have come to us here out of England, in late years, as those of this preacher,—sermons to kings, and sermons to peasants, and sermons to all intermediate classes. It is in vain that John Bull, or any of his cousins, turns a deaf ear, and pretends not to hear them: nature will not soon be weary of repeating them. There are words less obviously true, more for the ages to hear, perhaps, but none so impossible for this age not to hear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“With margeran gentle,
The flower of goodlihood,
Embroidered the mantle
Is of your maidenhood.”
—John Skelton (1460?–1529)