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Homo quasi flos egreditur & contritur & fugit velud vmbra, & num quoth in eod. &c.

Man he sayeth, as flour is bryght
When it cōmeth fyrste to earthly syght
And soone is broke, and passeth away
As doth the shadowe, in sōmers day
And neuer in the same state dwelleth
But euermore passeth as Iob telleth
Of this the Prophete wytnesseth ywys
In a psalme of the Psalter that sayeth this.