‘How the Wyse Man Tawght His Son’ — 20 8-line stanzas
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Note: For other texts see
3103 and
3112.
Title(s): ‘How the Wyse Man Tawght His Son’
Subjects: children, instructions for the behavior of; manners, treatises on; instruction, father to son
Versification: —
eight-line? —
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1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 61 (SC 6922*), ff. 6-6
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First Lines:Lordynges & ȝe wyll here
How a wyse man tauȝht hys
sone
Take god hede to þis matere
And fynd to lerne it yff ȝe
cane…
Last Lines:…And Ihesu bryng vs to his blysse
The chyld þat w[as] in
bedlem borne
Note: Omits stanzas 6-11, first half of 13, and 14. The poem has 100 lines and
appears to have been edited to make the number of lines equal one hundred. At
the end: ‘Amen quod Rate’.
Editions:
Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
Queene Elizabethes Achademy, etc.
EETS
e.s. 8 (1869); repr. 1973: 52-5.
Shuffleton, George.
Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse.
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 2008: 32-4; 424-7; 599.