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The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken

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IV. On Worldly Worship.

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[MS. B.M. Adds. 34360, leaf 77.]

Worldly worship is ioye transitory,
Vnsure assuraunce, highnes declinable,
Vaynegloryous gladnes, flatery proditory,
Disceyt disceyvous ful dissymulable,
To mannys soule most preiudiciable,
In whiche who hym most surely assurith
In most vnsuerte perilously endurith.
Verbum Magistri I. Lidgate. quasi honor mundi.