DIMEV 4888
IMEV 3129
NIMEV 3129
Sith in this world there can no thing be sure
An exhortation against the Deadly Sins — ten stanzas rhyme
royal
Subjects: sins, deadly
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.21 (601), ff. 275
vb-276
rb
Attributed Author: John Lydgate (added by later hand, ff. 275vb,
276rb)
Attributed Title: An Exortacion to auoyde and to put awey the seuyn dedely synnes (f.
275vb)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble.
“Lydgatiana.”
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