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The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
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Found Records:
London, British Library Royal 17 B.XLVII
Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) 1.115 (‘Cf. BL Royal 10 B. ix’).
Number 1356-34
1.   f. 2   For health of body cover for cold thine head
John Lydgate, ‘Dietary’ — ten 8-line stanzas
Number 1418-23
2.   f. 3v   For why that God is inwardly the wit / Of man
Cato Major
Number 6210-2
3.   f. 3v   Well were him that wist / To whom he might trust
A warning against false friends — one 6-line tail-rhyme stanza
Number 5701-2
4.   f. 48   This is a rule to know without labor
A couplet introducing a prose table on the changes of the moon
Number 6640-12
5.   f. 59   Whoso will beware of purchasing
‘Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to’, sometimes attributed to Sir John Fortescue — ten or twelve couplets
Number 3966-1
6.   f. 113   O Lord of heaven and King of might
The dilemma of an unfortunate lover — two cross-rhymed quatrains
Number 206-1
7.   ff. 160v-162   Above all thing thou art a king
A song on Money — twenty quatrains (abcb) and 4-line burden: ‘Money money now hay goode day / Money where haste thow be / Money money thow goste away / & wylt not byde wyth me’