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The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)
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Part I. RELIGIOUS POEMS.
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Part II. SECULAR POEMS.
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[Poems of Courtly Love.]
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[Satirical Poems.]
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[Narrative Poems.]
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20. THE CHURL AND THE BIRD.
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21. FABULA DUORUM MERCATORUM.
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22. GUY OF WARWICK.
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23. THE DEBATE OF THE HORSE, GOOSE, AND SHEEP.
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24. ISOPES FABULES.
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PROLOGUE AND FABLE I. The Tale of the Cok, that founde a precyous stone, groundyd by Isopus, the phylosopher of Rome, that yche man shuld take in gree suche as God sent.
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FABLE II. The Tale of the Wolfe and the Lambe groundyd opon Isopus, the phylosophor of Rome, ayenst raueyn & tiranny.
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FABLE III. The Tale of the Frogge and þe Mowse foundyd by Isopus, þe philosophor, groundyd ayenst deceyte.
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FABLE IV. The Tale of þe Hownde and þe Shepe groundyd ayen periure & false wytnes founde by Isopus.
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FABLE V. How the wollffe diseyvyd the crane, Isopus, translatyd by Iohn Lydgat.
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FABLE VI. THE SUN'S MARRIAGE
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FABLE VII. Thys ffable is of þe hound that bare the chese, gronddyd on Isopus agaynst covetousness, translatyd by Iohn Lydgat, made in Oxforde.
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[Political Poems.]
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[Occasional Poems.]
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[Didactic Poems.]
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[Little Homilies with Proverbial Refrains.]

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I. A seying of Daun Iohan.

Þer beoþe foure thinges þat makeþ man a fool.
Honnour first puteþe him in oultrage
And aldernexst solytarye and sool.
Þe secound is vnweldy crooked aage,
Wymmen also bring men in dotage,
And mighty wyne in many dyuers wyse
Distempren folk wheche beon holden wyse.

yit of þe same.

Þer beon foure thinges causing gret folye.
Honnour first and vnweldy aage;
Wymmen and wyne, I dare eeke specefye,
Make wyse men fallen in dotage
Wherfore, by counseyle of phylosofres saage,
In gret honnour, lerne þis of me,
With þyne estate haue humylytee.
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The second part of this poem is in Latin and has thus been omitted.

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