202 S. Barnards verses. 
TH, 
"| Light of S. Barnards verses, both in Latine 
and English with one note to 
them both} 
I UR mundus militat, sub vana gloria, 
Cuius prosperitas, est transitoria ? 
Tam cito labitur, eius potentia, 
Quam vasa figuli, que sunt fragilia ? 
1 Why?* so triumphes the world, in pompe and glorie vaine, 
Whose state so happie thought, so fickle* doth remaine ? 
Whose brauerie slipprie stands, and doth so soone decaie, 
As doth the potters pan, compact of brittle claie ? 
2 Plus crede literis, scriptis in glacie, 
Quam mundi fragilis, vane fallacie, 
Fallax in premis, virtutis specte, 
Que nunquam habutt tempus fiducia. 
2 More credite sée thou giue, to letters wrote in ise, 
Than vnto vaine deceits, of brittle worlds deuise. 
In gifts to vertue due, beguiling many one, 
Yet those same neuer haue long time to hope vpon. 
3 Magis credendum est, viris fallacibus, 
Quam mundi miseris prosperitatibus, 
Falsts insanis et voluptatibus, 
Falsts quoque studijs et vanitatibus. 
3 To false dissembling men more trust is to be had, 
Than to the prosperous state of wretched world so bad: 
What with voluptuousnes, and other maddish toies, 
False studies won with paine, false vanities and ioies. 
1 «These eight verses of St. Bernard seem to have been extremely 
popular at one period. , . . In the ‘Paradise of Dainty Devices,’ first 
printed in 1576, we find translations of the same words” (Mason). 
# Who. 1577. 3 unsteady. 1577. 
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