O esca vermium! O massa pulveris!
O roris vanitas, cur sic extolleris?”
Opp. ii. 913-14. ed. 1719.
(This Rythmus is printed by Mr. Wright among The Latin Poems attributed to Walter Mapes, p. 147.) So also Lydgate in a poem on the mutability of human affairs;
“And wher is Salomon moost soueryn of konnynge,
Richest of bildyng, of tresour incomparable?
Face of Absolon moost fair, moost amyable?
...
And wher is Alisaundir that conqueryd al?”
MS. Harl. 2255. fol. 4, 5.