Considere welle with eueri circumstaunce, of what estate euer that thowe be, riche, stronge or myghti of puysaunce, prudent or wis, discrete or avyse…
Explicit:
… be the writyng and sentence of Catoun is a gode tonge, yn his oppynyoun. Chastiseth the reuers, & of wisdom dothe this, voideth ȝowre heryng from al that sey a-mys.
The Minor Poems of John Lydgate, edited from all available MSS., with an attempt to establish the Lydgate canon by Henry Noble MacCracken, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 192), 1911-1934, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 839-844) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]