Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,

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Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,
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Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited,
1866, re-edited 1903.
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"Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ANT9912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.

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The Vanity of this Life.

Þe lif of þis world [folio 136b] Ys Reuled wiþ wynd. Wepinge, derknesse, ['derknesse' probably for 'drednesse.' The Latin has Flatum, Fletum, Motum, Metum.] a[n]d steriynge; Wiþ wind we blowen, Line 4 Wiþ wind we lassun.

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Wiþ weopinge we comen, Wiþ weopinge we passun. Wiþ steriinge we byginnen, Line 8 Wiþ steriinge we enden; Wiþ drede we dwellen, Wiþ drede we wenden.
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