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London, British Library Harley 7333

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 9510; Grid 463 161 (Hants: 94-97); LP 5590; Grid 459 148 (Hants: ff. 150-156, 197-203); LP 5600; Grid 464 151 (Hants: ff. ff. 157-164, 165-196

Parvus Cato (Burgh)

Cato Major

‘Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune’ — twenty or twenty-one stanzas rhyme royal

John Lydgate, ‘On the English title of Henry VI to the Crown of France’, translated from the French of Laurence Calot — 329 lines in couplets

[? John Lydgate]. Roundel on the Coronation of Henry VI — ten lines (ababababba)

John Lydgate, Guy of Warwick — 592 lines in 8-line stanzas

Richard Sellyng, An old man’s counsel to beware — seven stanzas rhyme royal of moral introduction, followed by ‘An Vocation til Oure Lady’ of fourteen stanzas rhyme royal, and a conclusion of six couplets wherein Squire Sellyng requests John Shirley ‘to amende where it is amisse’

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer, the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales — 858 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 2249 lines in couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight-Miller link in the Canterbury Tales — 78 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Miller’s Tale in the Canterbury Tales — 666 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Reeve’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 66 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Reeve’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 404 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Cook’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 40 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Cook’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 58 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Introduction to the Man of Law’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 98 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Man of Law’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 35 lines (five stanzas) in rhyme royal.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Man of Law’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 1026 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Epilogue’ of the Man of Law’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 28 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Squire’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 664 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Merchant’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 32 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Merchant’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 1174 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Friar’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 364 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Sommoner’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 44 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Summoner’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 586 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Clerk’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales —56 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Clerk’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales —1155 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Clerk’s Endlink’/‘The Host’s Stanza’ of the Canterbury Tales —one 7-line rhyme royal stanza.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Franklin’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 20 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Franklin’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 896 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prologue of the Second Nun’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 119 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Second Nun’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 434 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 166 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 762 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Physician’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 286 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Host’s Words’/‘Physician-Pardoner Link’ of the Canterbury Tales — 42 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 136 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 506 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prioress’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 35 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prioress’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 203 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prologue to Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales — 21 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales — 207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Thopas-Melibee Link’ in the Canterbury Tales — 48 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Monk’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 102 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Monk’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 776 lines in eight-line stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Nun’s Priest’s Prologue of The Canterbury Tales — 53 lines in couplets, occurring in two forms, one lacking lines VII.2771-90.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 626 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Manciple’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 104 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Manciple’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 258 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the the Parson’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 74 lines in rhyming couplets.

Confessio Amantis

Proverbs by Impingham — thirteen couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules — 98 stanzas rhyme royal

Compleynt of Mars

Balade in praise of Chaucer — one stanza rhyme royal: lines II. 1628-34 from Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady (4080). See Wellesley (2018)

Geoffrey Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite — 357 lines in 45 stanzas of various forms, mostly rhyme royal

‘The complaynte ageyne Hope’ — fifteen 8-line stanzas

An Amorous Complaint (Compleint Damours), sometimes attributed to Chaucer — thirteen stanzas rhyme royal

Life of St. Edmund and St. Fremund (Lydgate)

Complaint þat Crist maketh of his Passioun

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Lak of Stedfastnesse’ — four stanzas rhyme royal, including one-stanza Envoy

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Gentilesse’ — three stanzas rhyme royal

Truth

Chaucer’s ‘Complaynt to his Empty Purse’ — three stanzas rhyme royal and 5-line Envoy

A single stanza rhyme royal, occurring separately and in combinations

The first stanza (ababbcc) of ‘Tyed with a Line’ (5410), standing alone or directly following 5534.

Verses on the Kings of England (Lydgate)

Benedict [?Burgh], ‘A Christemasse game made by Maister Benet’ — twelve stanzas rhyme royal

Rhyming comment of the second cock in the Story of the Three Cocks in the Gesta Romanorum — one couplet

Three sorrowful things — three couplets, in one MS of the Gesta Romanorum

Hoccleve’s De Regimine Principum — 780 stanzas rhyme royal.