DIMEV 6063
IMEV 3800
NIMEV 3800
Treat every man as he is disposed
John Lydgate, ‘Everything draweþe to his semblable’ —
twenty-five 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)
Author(s): John Lydgate
Title(s): ‘Everything draweþe to his semblable’
Subjects: advice, moral
Versification: —
eight-line —
ababbcbc
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 59 (SC 6943), ff. 18-21
First Lines:TRete every man as he is disposed
With holy men entrete of
holynesse
þambissyous man loveþe to be glosed
þe marcyal
prynce to here of his prowesse…
Last Lines:…Prerogatyff moste souereine of honour
Vn to his ymage list
make þee semblable
Note: 24 lines (stanza 12 is missing).
Attributed Title: Here nowe foloweþe a balade ryal made by Lydegate affter his resorte
to his religyoun. with þe refrayde / howe every thing draweþe to his
semblable (f. 18)
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble,
ed.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961: 801-8.
2.Source: London, British Library Harley 2251, ff. 19
v-22
First Lines:Trete euery man like as he is disposed
with holy men trete of
parfitnesse…
Last Lines:…And by perogatives most souerayne of honoure
To his ymage list
make the semblable
Note: 24 stanzas.