Vanyté

Titre:	Vanyté (ms.); Vanity
Date:	XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
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Forme:	77 vers
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Incipit:	Vanyté O vanyté of vanytés, and all is vanité. Lo, how this werld is turnyd up and downe: now wele, now wo, now tranquilyté, now werre, now pese and now rebilyon…
Explicit:	… we geder the corn hom for other mens ryches. We have full seldom any restfull gladnes, bot labour in poverté to the tyme that we dyghe. Yit is our labour not bot vanyté. Amen quod rate.

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Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century, edited by Carleton Brown, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1939, xxxi + 394 p. — Réimpr.: 1962; 1965; 1967.

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