Two lines from Venus and Adonis, in a late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century hand, in the margins of a thirteenth-century theological compilation.
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THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, in Latin, perhaps connected with St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester
ca. late 1500s or early
Royal MS 8.A.XXI, folio 153 verso
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Title: THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, in Latin, perhaps connected with St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester
Date: ca. late 16th or early 17th century
Call number and opening: Royal MS 8.A.XXI, fol. 153b
Royal MS 8.A.XXI, fol. 153v
TAGS: Contemporary accounts and critical responses to poetry, Manuscript, British Library, Venus and Adonis
[fol. 153b]
ffayer flowers
that are not
gathered in there
prime Rot and
consume them
selues in littill
Tyme.