At Floddon hyllys, / Our bowys, our byllys / Slew all the floure / Of theyr honoure.
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1513, John Skelton, Agaynst the Scottes; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 116, lines 25–28:
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The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
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1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC:
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the flower of the chivalry of all Spain
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1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish:
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In times of peace, so clean and bright, / And with a new-washed morning face, / He walked Pall Mall, a goodly sight, / The finished flower of all the race.