Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 3160

DIMEV 3160

IMEV 1932

NIMEV see 3330

Lo worldly folks though this process of death / Be not sweet…

An admonition to prepare for death — two stanzas rhyme royal

Note: Really an Epilogue to the Visio Fulberti, 5256.

Title(s): Visio Fulberti

Subjects: epilogues; death, approach of

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

Editions:

Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. Early English Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. London: for the Warton Club, 1855: 39-40.

Fiedler, H. G. “Earth upon Earth.” Modern Language Review 3 (1908): 218-27: 224-5.

Murray, Hilda M. R., ed. The Middle English Poem Erthe upon Erthe, printed from 24 manuscripts. EETS o.s. 141 (1911); repr. 1964: 38.