Four things that make a man fall from Reason, perhaps by Lydgate — one
stanza rhyme royal
Note: For closely related texts see
5558
and
5559; same as stanza 2 of
4006; this poem does not occur in London, British Library Addit. 16165 or in London, British Library Addit. 34360 [
olim Phillipps 9053], pace
MacCracken (1934)
XMacCracken, Henry Noble.
John Lydgate: The Minor Poems, Vol. II: Secular Poems.
EETS
o.s. 192 (1934); repr. 1961
, xvii.
Author(s): John Lydgate (?)
Subjects: women, against; advice, moral; old age; wine
Versification: —
seven-line —
ababbcc
Bibliographic Ghosts: ;
London, British Library Addit. 16165
;
London, British Library Addit. 34360 [olim Phillipps 9053]
5.Source: London, British Library Harley 2251, f. 150
v
First Lines:Worship wymmen wyne and vnweldy age
Make men fonde for lak in theyr
Reason…
Last Lines:…And bookes that poetis wrote and Radde
Say women most make men
to be madde
Attributed Author: Note wele this / ffoure thynges ther ben that make / a man to falle from
Reasoun / Quatuor infatuam honor / Etas femina & vinum / Ye wilbe
shent Dane Iohn / Lydegate for your triew seyeng (f. 150v,
margin)
Editions: Brusendorff, Aage.
The Chaucer Tradition.
Copenhagen, 1925; repr. Oxford: Clarendon, 1967: 465.