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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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Septem sunt gradus magnatum.

Thys world ys born vp by astates seuyn,
Prynce[s] ordeynyd to susteyn [þe] ryght,
Prestes to pray, þe iustyces to deme euyn,
Marchauntes in sellyng to do trouþe in weyght,
For comon profyte fyght[e] shal þe knyght,
Plowman in tylþe, þe laborer in trauayll.
Artyfycers diligent day and nyght.
The ryche her almes to parte with þe porayll.
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Officia dictorum magnatum.

Pryncys. To vs longeþ prestys to gouerne,
Presthode And we be bounde to lyue in parfytnes.
Iuges. Betwene ryght & wrong our office doþ dyscerne.
Merchantes. In bying & sellyng we shall do no falsnes.
Knyghthode. We shull defende trouþe & ryghtwysnes.
Plowman. Our occupacion to tyll & sowe þe lond,
Werkemen. And by our labour we voyden idylnes.
Rycheman. We delyuer our almes with our hond.
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