‘Experience shewith the wourld is varyable’ — fourteen 8-line
stanzas (ababbcbc), including envoy, with this refrain
Subjects: envoys; mutability
Versification: —
eight-line —
ababbcbc
1.Source: London, British Library Harley 2255, fd. 126
v-128
v
First Lines:TOward Aurora in the monyth of decembre
Walkyng alloone in
contemplacioun…
Last Lines:…Envye feerfull for devyne Iugement
Experience shewith the
wourld is varyable
Attributed Author: Explicit quod lydgate (f. 128v, in margin, in
rubric)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 844-7.