The Minor Poems of John Lydgate edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken |
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III. Another Version of the Four Things.
Quatuor infatuant, honor, etas, femina, vinum.
Wurship, women, wyne, vnweldy age
Maken men to fonne for lakke of ther resoun;
Elde causeth dulnesse and dotage;
Worship causeth chaunge of condicioun;
Excesse of wyne blyndeth discrecioun;
And bookes alle, that poetes wroot and radde,
Seyn women moste maken men to madde.
[Ye wilbe shent, Dane Iohan Lidegate for your triew seyeng.]
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