DIMEV 6787
IMEV 4228
NIMEV 4228
Worldly worship is Joy transitory
The uncertainty of worldly honour — one stanza rhyme royal
Note: transitoriness, of world
Versification: —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34360 [olim Phillipps 9053], f. 77
First Lines:Worldly worship is Ioye transitory
Vnsure assuraunce highnes
declinable…
Last Lines:…In whiche who hym most surely assurith
In most vnsuerte
perilously endurith
Attributed Author: verbum Magestri I lidgate / quasi honor mundi (f. 77,
margin)
Attributed Title: verbum Magestri I lidgate / quasi honor mundi (f. 77,
margin)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 709.
2.Source: London, British Library Harley 2251, f. 42
First Lines:Worldly worship is Ioye transitorye
Vnsure assuraunce highnes
declynable…
Last Lines:…In whiche who hym surely assurith
In most vnsuerte
most perilously endurith
Attributed Author: Verbum Magestri I lydgate / quasi honor Mundi (f. 42)
Attributed Title: Verbum Magestri I lydgate / quasi honor Mundi (f. 42)