The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Royal 18 C.II
Linguistic note:
Horobin (2003)
XHorobin, Simon.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003
argues for Gloucestershire (pp. 159-60).
Number 1895-1
Number 3237-3
2. f. 2
v Lord what is this world wealOn the evils of the times and practical advice for amendment — twelve
8-line stanzas or twenty-two cross-rhymed quatrains
Number 6414-37
Number 6415-32
Number 6530-35
Number 6427-34
Number 6537-34
Number 6307-31
Number 724-33
Number 5238-28
Number 145-28
Number 3090-19
Number 4315-34
Number 3929-31
Number 2587-37
Number 4316-21
Number 725-32
Number 2499-18
Number 6535-31
Number 1242-32
20. ff. 105-115
Experience though none auctoriteeGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Prologue of the Canterbury
Tales — 856 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 2618-33
21. ff. 115-120
In the old days of King ArthurGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Tale of the Canterbury
Tales — 408 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 5802-30
Number 6536-33
Number 5756-29
Number 3255-34
Number 4860-33
Number 5573-35
Number 5801-14
Number 745-21
Number 5024-22
Number 5617-25
Number 2476-32
Number 5405-33
Number 5729.4-33
Number 6296-28
Number 6753-28
Number 5599-33
Number 4314-28
Number 3251-32
Number 2502-33
Number 120-32
Number 6206-29
Number 3970-35
Number 5601-37
Number 6401-28
Number 3097-31
46. ff. 194-196
v Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-27
Number 6295-28
Number 2316-30
Number 2033-26
Number 142-30
Number 6390-30
Number 941-28