DIMEV 4024
IMEV 2536.5
NIMEV TM 1225
O peerless Prince of Peace
The evil state of morality among clergy and laity — twelve short
cross-rhymed quatrains
Subjects: evils of the times
Versification: —
four-line —
abab
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library PML 35083 [ChL1787; olim Earl of Oxford, Joseph Brereton, and the Earl of
Dysart], f. v
v
First Lines:O pereles prynce of peace
and lorde of Lordes
all…
Last Lines:…and pouertie may goo playe
& all for lake of
grace
Note: Last flyleaf before text, verso in the Morgan copy of
Robert of Shrewsbury, Here begynneth the lyf of the holy [and] blessid vyrgyn saynt
Wenefryde, [Westminster: W. Caxton, 1485] ; added by a sixteenth-century hand; written as
prose.
Editions: Bühler, Kurt.
“A Satirical Poem of the Tudor Period.”
Anglia
72 (1954): 419-22: 420-1.