The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Harley 7322
Linguistic note:
McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)
XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin.
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English.
4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press,
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).
Number 6574-1
Number 6439-1
Number 2707-1
Number 5775-1
Number 5148-8
5. f. 45
v That is merry to be a wifeA tag in the Fasciculus morum translating a Latin hexameter from Seneca,
Controversia 6.8, ‘Felices nupte moriar quia nubere
dulce’
Number 6865-1
Number 2998-8
7. ff. 79-79
v King I sit and look aboutThe Vicissitudes of Life, a tag in the Fasciculus morum — four
couplets, translating Latin lines, each spoken by a king on the Wheel of
Fortune
Number 3492-32
8. ff. 92-95
Might is right…Light is nightSentences 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
Number 6759-1
Number 336-1
Number 4287-1
Number 5245-1
Number 3823-1
Number 815-1
Number 3043-1
15. f. 135
v Learn to love as I love theeThe Christ Child Shivering with Cold: a dialogue between Christ and the Virgin
Mary — five 6-line stanzas (aabccb)
Number 5372-1
Number 5759-1
Number 2653-1
Number 5626-1
Number 178-1
Number 5293-1
Number 5536-1
Number 2737-1
Number 3278-1
Number 2712-1
25. f. 145
v3 It falseth
Cupiditas — four monorhyming lines
Number 2752-1
Number 2769-1
27. f. 148
It wastethOn lechery — four monorhyming lines following Latin Luxuria facit
hec…
Number 179-1
Number 1460-1
Number 5948-1
Number 6754-1
Number 6233-1
Number 384-1
Number 6839-1
Number 3286-1
Number 3043-2
36. f. 154
r3 Learn to love as I love theeThe Christ Child Shivering with Cold: a dialogue between Christ and the Virgin
Mary — five 6-line stanzas (aabccb)
Number 5776-1
Number 1312-9
38. ff. 155
v2-156
Fire water wind and landThe use and benefits of prayer: inscriptions accompanying an image of Prayer
— four couplets in the Fasciculus morum
Number 6792-1
Number 1831-1
Number 284-1
Number 2468-1
Number 3478-1
Number 3376-2
Number 4843-1
Number 969-1
Number 5702-1
Number 3459-1
Number 5782-1
Number 5286-1
50. f. 163
r1 The foremost of these beasts threeThree 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).
Number 5834-1
51. f. 163
r2 Thou most fort with weal or woeOn Fortune’s Wheel — ten lines. Written as prose inserted into Latin text, the Latin between couplets. Rough couplets and a quatrain, abab.
Number 2099-1
Number 6179-1
Number 1633-1
54. f. 167
r1 Gods oreInducements to repentance — four short lines translating a Latin
text
Number 1817-1
Number 2096-1
Number 6459-1
Number 4199-1
Number 5043-1
Number 5216-1
Number 5145-1
Number 1347-1
Number 1402-1
Number 3451-1
Number 6170-1
Number 3203-1
Number 36-1
67. f. 185
A false behightingPhrases describing three evils, in a sermon — three monorhyming
lines