On mutability, added (in manuscript) at the end of Part VII of Fabyan’s
Chronicle in the the British Library copy only — three and a half
stanzas rhyme royal
Subjects: chronicles, verse in; transitoriness, of earthly life; mutability; transitoriness, of world
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Bibliographic Ghosts:
Fabyan, Robert , The chronicle of Fabyan whiche he hym selfe nameth the concordaunce of
historyes, nowe newely printed, [and] in many places corrected, as to the dylygent reader it may
apere. 1542. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [London]: Printed by Iohn Reynes, dwellynge
at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls churcheyarde, [1542]
1.Source: STC 10659.
Fabyan, Robert ,
New Chronicles of Englande and of Fraunce, Pynson, 1533
First Lines:That mannys lyffe is full vnstable
Full short & full of
wrecchidnesse…
Last Lines:…Rich pore yong & old that descendith
Naturally and myend
well…
Editions: Ellis, Sir Henry,
ed.
The New Chronicles of England and France in Two Parts. repr. of Robert
Fabyan, New Chronicles, Pynson 1516 (STC 10659).
London: Rivington, 1811: 682-3.