Moral advice to readers by Huntyng, probably to serve as Prologue or Envoy
— five couplets or one short-line quatrain and four couplets
Subjects: envoys; prologues; advice, moral
Versification: —
two-line —
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Macaronic: Latin
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Dd.4.54, f. 75
Transcription:Who so on thys boke
Wol loke and rede
To hefne blys
It schal
hym lede: Considera
To gouerne thy lyf I the rede
In thougth Word
and dede: Considera
Remedy ys wrete ther ynne
ffor all maner of
synne: Considera
Loke and se wyth ynne
Vnderstande and rede
þerynne: Omnis sapiencia a domino do est
To do þerafter I
the rede
Hefne blys schal be thy mede: Hec est fides
catholica
Note: Heading, or perhaps burden, ‘Considera Christians: presente
deo: Te cum hoste pugnare’ (f. 229); after text is
‘Memento ffinis. Huntyng. Amen’ (f. 229).
Attributed Author: Huntyng