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London, British Library Addit. 22283 [Simeon]

An English quatrain (aabb) occurring in Archb. Edmund Riche’s Speculum Ecclesie

Gospel for Friday after Pentecost, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In vigilia sancte trinitatis’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Trinity Sunday in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle; also used for The Invention of the Cross (3468)

Gospel for Whit Monday in the Northern Homily Cycle

Thais, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Northern Homily Cycle

An extract from Robert of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (1283) (lines 9891-10810) with the title: Septem Miracula de corpore cristi

Gospel for First Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Second Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Hermit and the Angel, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Third Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Fall of the Angels and the Creation of Man, in Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel for Fourth Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle

The Monk who was harsh in judging, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Fifth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Sixth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Eighth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Tenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle

King Oswald and the Hermit, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Legend of Theophilus in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Adulterous Parish Priest, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel for Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Thrifty Gardener, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle

Dying Monk sees Dragon, Narratio in Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Pelagia: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Knight who forgave the Slayer of his Father, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

‘Of Kyng Heroud þat slou þe chyldren’ — Narratio for 19th Sunday after Trinity, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gregory and Trajan’s soul, followed by the story of Alexander and the imprisoned Jews, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel for Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gregory’s Aunts: a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Despised Nun: a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

The Backbiting Monk, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Story of Queen Esther, in the Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Twenty-fourth (according to some MSS the Twenty-fifth) Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle

Piers Toller, in the Northern Homily Cycle

‘Nisi granum frumenti cadens in terram’, in twenty 13-line stanzas

Gospel ‘In Vigilia sancti Andree’ in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo Sancti Andree’, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo Conceptionis Marie’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo sancti Thome apostoli’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo Sancti Stephani’, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo sancti Ioh. apost.’, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, In festo sanctorum Innocentium, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Gospel, ‘In festo sancti Thome Cant.’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo Conuersionis sancti Pauli’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo Cathed. sancti Petri’, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo Sancti Mathie’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo SS. Philipi et Iacobi’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for Trinity Sunday in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle; also used for The Invention of the Cross (3468)

Gospel, ‘In vigilia apostolorum Petri et Pauli’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In Oct. apostolorum Petri et Pauli’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo sancte Margarete’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Northern Homily Cycle

Six exempla: marvellous beast, tree, fowls, fish, etc.

Gospel, ‘In festo sancti Iacobi maioris’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel for the Feast of the Assumption in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo Sancti Bartholomei’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo Exaltationis Crucis’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel In festo S. Matthei, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets

Homily, ‘In festo S. Michaelis’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo S. Luce Evangeliste’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo SS. Simonis et Iude’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo omnium sanctorum’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel, ‘In festo sancti Martini confessoris’, in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

Gospel ‘In festo dedicationis ecclesie’, in ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle

A translation of Part I of St. Edmund’s Speculum

‘þe visions of seynt poul’ — 346 lines in couplets

William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae — in couplets

Epilogue to The Pricke of Conscience — in couplets and triplets

The Pricke of Conscience, sometimes attributed to Richard [Rolle of] Hampole

‘Þe Prikke of loue’, a free translation of St. Edmund’s Speculum — 1082 lines in couplets

‘þe disputisoun betwen þe bodi and þe soule’ — 61 to 74 eight-line stanzas (abababab) sometimes written as quatrains with medial rhyme

‘Disputison bitwene a god man and þe deuel’ — 987 lines in couplets

A collection of pseudo-scientific material incorporated as Part III in the legend of St. Michael

The Castle of Love, a translation of Grosseteste’s Chateau d’Amour — 1860 lines in couplets

The ‘Legend of Ipotis’ — in couplets

’Þre Messagers of Deeth’ — fifty-six quatrains

A song of love to Jesus — in monorhyming quatrains

Christ’s Appeal to Man, ‘A luytel tretys of loue, of Godes passyon’ — in quatrains

‘Of Clene Maydenhod’ — seventeen 8-line stanzas

‘A Mournyng Song of the Loue of God’ — thirty-two 8-line stanzas

‘A Disputisoun bi-twene Child Ihesu and Maistres of the Lawe of Jewus’ — in 8-line stanzas (abababab)

A prayer of the Five Wounds — one long monorhyming quatrain

Friar Henry, ‘A luytel sermoun of good edificacioun’ — ten 8-line stanzas

Roberd of Cisyle — in couplets

Proverbs of old Philosophers, in Latin, French, and English — the English text usually in quatrains (aabb)

‘Luytel Caton’ — 644 lines in quatrains

‘Great Cato’ — 644 lines in quatrains

‘The Stacions of Rome’, in couplets, with a Prologue of 78 lines

The Disputation between the Virgin Mary and the Cross — 13-line stanzas, ababababcdddc, with an introduction and conclusion in which the first eight lines are expanded to twelve short lines, aabccbddbeebfgggf

‘The Pistill of Susan’ (the story of Susannah) — twenty-eight 13-line stanzas (ababababcdddc of alliterative verse

‘þe Kyng of Tars and þe Soudan of Dammas’ — 1228 lines in 12-line stanzas (aabaabccbddb)

Mercy Passes all Things — sixteen 12-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Mercy passeth alle thinge’

Deo gracias — eleven 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with this refrain

Against my will I take my Leave — eight 8-line stanzas with ‘…take my leue’ refrain

Deus Caritas — seven 8-line stanzas

A second song of Deo Gracias — six 8-line stanzas, with ‘Deo gracias’ refrain

Each Man ought Himself to know — nine 12-line stanzas

‘Þenk on ȝesterday’ — fifteen l2-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with refrain, ‘Þenk on ȝesterday’

Keep Well Christ’s Commandments — thirteen 8-line stanzas with refrain

‘Fy on a feynt Frende’ — nine 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, alliterating and with a refrain, ‘And þer fy on a feynt frende’

’Thank God of All’ — up to seventeen 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, alliterative, with refrain, ‘thank God of all’

‘This World Fareþ as a ffantasy’, based on Ecclesiastes — eleven 12-line stanzas with refrain, ‘ffor þis world fareþ as a fantasye’

‘Ay Merci God and Graunt Merci’ — twelve 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), alliterative, including refrain, ‘With marcy Lorde & gramarcy’ or ‘mercy god and graunt merci’

’Treuþe is best’ — fourteen 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

‘Charite is no lengor Cheere’ — fourteen 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘Of Wymmen comeþ þis worldes welle’ — ten l2-line stanzas with this refrain

A song in praise of the Virgin Mary — thirteen 8-line stanzas

Maiden Mary and her Fleur-de-Lys — seventeen 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, with refrain, ‘þe fflourdelys’

On the Death of Edward III — fourteen 8-line stanzas with refrain: ‘Selden seiȝe and sone forȝete’

Moralizing verses on the Earthquake of 1382 — eleven 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with refrain element, ‘…warning to be ware’

Love Holy Church and its Priests — two 12-line stanzas, ababcdcdcdcd, followed by five 8-line stanzas, abababab

‘Fonde euermore to Say the Beste’ — seven 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with refrain, ‘to sey þe beste’

‘Mak no Tarijng til to-Morn’ — nine 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘For þi Sunnes Amendes make’ — twelve 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘Suffre in tyme and þat is beste’ — six 12-line and one 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘Mane nobiscum domine’ — ten 8-line stanzas with this refrain

Ave maris stella (cf. Daniel (1841), 1.204) — fourteen 12-line stanzas, with Latin verse couplet before each pair of stanzas

‘But he sey soth he schal be schent’ — nine 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with this refrain

A morning thanksgiving to God — eleven 8-line stanzas

Appeal of Christ to Man from the Cross — fifteen couplets

Form of Living

Quia amore langueo

First lyric inserted in Rolle’s Ego Dormio — 8 or 10 irregular alliterative lines

‘Meditacio de passione’ in the treatise, Ego dormio — 41 rhyming lines in various stanzaic patterns

Three rhyming lines in Rolle’s Ego Dormio

‘Cantus Amoris,’ rhyming lines in the treatise, Ego dormio — 93 lines in varying meters and stanzaic patterns including long-line couplets with or without medial rhyme, monorhyming 3-6-line stanzas, and a six-line stanza aabccb