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London, British Library Harley 5396

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) 1.113 (‘part III.…Language varies, but probably of Notts’).

A prayer at the ‘leuacion’ — six 6-line stanzas

A Christmas carol — four quatrains and burden: ‘Christo paremus cantica / In excelsis gloria’

An orison to the Virgin Mary in the Speculum Christiani (Octaua Tabula) — twenty-seven couplets

Holly against Ivy — four monorhyming quatrains and burden: ‘Nay nay ive it may not be iwis / For holy must haue the mastry as the maner is’

Story of the adulterous Falmouth Squire — 49 quatrains (abab)

A Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) and Latin burden (cb): ‘Puer nobis natus est / De virgine Maria’

A Lament of the Virgin Mary — fourteen 8-line stanzas (ababcdcd)

The Ten Commandments — twelve couplets

How a merchande dyd hys wyfe betray or A penniworth of witte — in couplets

On the evils of the times and practical advice for amendment — twelve 8-line stanzas or twenty-two cross-rhymed quatrains

Verses — eleven 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Turne up hur halter and let hur go’

‘Why artow froward sith I am mercyable?’ (Lydgate)

‘How the Wyse Man Taght Hys Son’ — twenty-four 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

The ‘Long Charter’ of Christ (A Text) — 234 lines in couplets

‘Alas that any kyndeman wantys gode’ — seven 8-line stanzas with this refrain

A tale of Henry II — in 6-line tail-rime stanzas

The Turnament of Totenham — in 9-line stanzas (aaaabcccb)