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London, British Library Cotton Caligula A.IX

Linguistic note: Laing and Lass (2007) Index # 277; Grid 381 271 (NW Worcs: Part I, Entry 1, Hand A); Index # 278; Grid 381 271 (NW Worcs: Part I, Entry 2, Hand B); Index # 2; Grid 390 262 (Central Worcs: Part II, Entry 1); Index # 3; Grid 379 267 (NW Worcs: Part II, Entry 2); Index # 238 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 3); Index # 239 (̰text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 4); Index # 240 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 5); Index # 241 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 6); Index # 242 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 7); Index # 243 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 8); Index # 244 (‘text language not placed’: Part II, Entry 9).

Laȝamon’s Brut — in rhyming alliterative lines

The Owl and the Nightingale — 1794 lines in couplets

Admonition to prepare for Death — five 10-line stanzas

An orison to the Virgin Mary — five 10-line stanzas (ababababab)

Will and Wit — eight lines (abababab)

On Doomsday — eleven monorhyming quatrains

On Death — in monorhyming quatrains

The Abuses of the Age — fourteen lines roughly rhyming in some pairs (couplets)

‘A lutel soth Sermun’ — fifty-four long lines in couplets, with occasional medial rhyme