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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. 19v-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.