The vanitee of this world
- Title
- The vanitee of this world
- Author
- Thomas, William, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI.
- Publication
- [Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet],
- Anno. M. D. XLIX. [1549]
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- Subject terms
- Pride and vanity -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
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https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13731.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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"The vanitee of this world." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ¶To the right woorship∣full and my singuler good La∣die, the Ladie Anne Herbert of Wil∣ton.
- ¶The thynges that are conteigned in this booke.
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THE FOLIE OF MAN.
- ¶That the pleasures of the body oughe not to be folowed.
- ¶How abhominable the vice of glotonie is.
- ¶How abhominable Lecherie is.
- ¶That Beautie is a vaine thyng.
- ¶That force and valiauntnesse is vayne.
- ¶That riches deserue not to be esteemed.
- ¶That honour is not to be sought for.
- ¶That dominion ought not to be desired.
- ¶What a lawfull lorde is.
- ¶What a tyranne is.
- ¶That fame is a vaine thyng.
- ¶Conclusion of the humaine mi∣serie and vanitee.
- The greatest goodnesse.
- ¶Christ is the waie, the verifee, and the life.
- ¶Christ vniteth man vnto god▪
- ¶The life of Christe in this worlde.
- ¶Eternall life.
- ¶The knowlage of God.
- ¶The testament of Christ.
- ¶The loue of God towardes vs.
- ¶What our mutuall loue ought to be.
- ¶The conclusion of our doynges, what they ought to be.
- colophon