News at Eleven: In hopes of wooing the pending victim of decapitation,

Henry [VIII] took quill in hand and penned the lyrics that we have seen put to music, becoming Greensleeves long after his death. The title Greensleeves we believe came into being as Anne Boleyn was a lover of green and like most Tudor women, wore long sleeves that covered the wrists.

Henry's poetry led to a trend emerging within the Tudor courts where a knight would often uses poetry to woo his woman.

from The Economic Voice: Henry VIII--monarch and muse

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