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London, British Library Harley 7322

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 7860; Grid 409 526 (Warwicks: Hand A, ff. 7r-v, 8, 64, 79, 91v, 103r-v, 121r-v, 124v, 133v, 134, 135v, 136v, 138v-139v, 140v, 141v, 143r-v, 144v, 145r-v, 147v, 148, 149, 150); 1.113 (Norfolk: Hand B, ff. 152-163v).

A meditation on the Passion — nine lines

Signs of death — fourteen to twenty-two lines in couplets.

Three Sorrowful Things — six lines

Two couplets in a Latin exemplum

A tag in the Fasciculus morum translating a Latin hexameter from Seneca, Controversia 6.8, ‘Felices nupte moriar quia nubere dulce’

The reply of the oracle on the Sins of the Time — three couplets

The Vicissitudes of Life, a tag in the Fasciculus morum — four couplets, translating Latin lines, each spoken by a king on the Wheel of Fortune

Sentences of the Four Philosophers on the degeneracy of the times in a Latin exemplum incorporated into the Speculum Christiani (Sexta Tabula) — twelve rhyming phrases in four monorhyming stanzas

On the Curse caused by Adam’s sin — six lines

Description of a dying person — eighteen lines in couplets

The Covetous Man (translating a Latin prose sentence) — four couplets

Qualities of Death — four lines — preceeded by Latin verson

Christ comes as a Champion — ten lines

Learn Love from Christ’s Sufferings — eight lines

The Christ Child Shivering with Cold: a dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary — five 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

On the Vanity of this World — twelve unrhymed short lines

How man is made God’s Brother — six long lines

‘In die bonorum non immemor sis malorum’ — a single couplet

The Four Evils of Pride — four lines

A definition of Humility — four lines

Eve and Our Lady — a single couplet

What Envy is Like — four lines

An anagram on L. O. V. E. — four lines

On the Evils of the Time — seven lines preceded by Latin version

Cupiditas — four monorhyming lines

The Four Benefits of Poverty — a single couplet

On lechery — four monorhyming lines following Latin Luxuria facit hec…

A definition of Chastity — four lines

Three lines linking good conditions and qualities

Lines in a story from the Gesta Romanorum — twelve couplets

Several ring inscriptions, many illegible

Christ comes with bloody Garments — three couplets

The sinner’s lament (based on Lamentations, 5:15) — two couplets

O vos omnes qui transitis per viam

An apostrophe to Love (with a religious application) — one 6-line stanza

The Christ Child Shivering with Cold: a dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary — five 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

On True Love — four couplets

The use and benefits of prayer: inscriptions accompanying an image of Prayer — four couplets in the Fasciculus morum

Advice not to trust the World — three couplets

Purity — a single couplet

On Mortality — four monorhyming lines

A single couplet on Superbia

On the Mercy of God — five couplets

The Virgin Mary and her Son, Man’s Advocates — three couplets

The King’s Letter to his Son — five couplets

The Evils of the Time — four 3-line stanzas

On the Fickleness of Fortune — four couplets

A Lover’s Saying — one quatrain

Warning, ‘Ware the Wheel of Fortune’ — six lines (aabcbc)

Three dangerous beasts, the lion, the bear and the dragon, eleven to fifteen lines—mixed rhyme schemes, couplets and short lines abba (the first two lines not in Furnivall).

On Fortune’s Wheel — ten lines. Written as prose inserted into Latin text, the Latin between couplets. Rough couplets and a quatrain, abab.

‘Amor fatuus’ — eight lines, rhyming couplets and a quatrain, abab.

The Ten Ages of Man’s Life — ten couplets

Inducements to repentance — four short lines translating a Latin text

On the Mercy of God — four lines

Three monorhyming lines on the Sufferings of Christ

Signs of Death — eight long lines or 16 shorter ones

Against Temptation — three lines

The Bitterness of Death — twelve lines, mainly in couplets

The Sinners’ Lament — two couplets based on Lam. 5:15-16

Job’s Curse (Job III. 3) — a single couplet

Dialogue between the Saved and the Damned — four couplets

The Reward of the Meek — one couplet

Mathew’s Feast (Matt. IX. 10) — a single couplet

The Virtues serve us — two couplets

Lord come to my feast — three couplets

Phrases describing three evils, in a sermon — three monorhyming lines