Page of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. 34. " Apostolus dicit Ciuitatem hic manentem non habentus " (etc.): verses (23 couplets) beg. "Behold how in pe wilderness of pis warld men gase Bot therin place of abydynge none hase." Accompanied by the common Vado Mori device, three drawings bearing each a scroll with verses (Latin in Royal MSS. 5 E. xxi. f. 126 b, 7 E. VII. f. 177, etc., English in Cotton MS. Faust. B. vi. pt. ii. f. 1 b, with good drawing, and Stowe MS. 39, f. 32), beg. "I wende to dede a kyng y wys. What helps honour or warlds blys ? " f. 36. Source: Add. 37049 f.36. Language: English.

Page of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'. The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. 34. " Apostolus dicit Ciuitatem hic manentem non habentus " (etc.): verses (23 couplets) beg. "Behold how in pe wilderness of pis warld men gase Bot therin place of abydynge none hase." Accompanied by the common Vado Mori device, three drawings bearing each a scroll with verses (Latin in Royal MSS. 5 E. xxi. f. 126 b, 7 E. VII. f. 177, etc., English in Cotton MS. Faust. B. vi. pt. ii. f. 1 b, with good drawing, and Stowe MS. 39, f. 32), beg. "I wende to dede a kyng y wys. What helps honour or warlds blys ? " f. 36. Source: Add. 37049 f.36. Language: English.

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