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Found Records:
Diues & pauper
, Pynson, 1493
1.
Behold mine wounds and have them in thine thought
A knight at the point of death sends a letter to his wife — verse from an
exemplum
in
Dives and Pauper
translating the same Latin distich as that in
810
Printed Book: STC19212
Witness 809-3
2.
The Joy of our heart is done & passed away
Another translation of the Latin text of Lamentations 5:15, at the beginning of cap. XV in
Dives and Pauper
— one quatrain
Printed Book: STC19212
Witness 5351-11
3.
With this beetle been they beaten
Warning of the punishment for voluntarily choosing poverty or mendicancy, at the end of cap. IV in
Dives and Pauper
— two couplets
Printed Book: STC19212
Witness 6752-11