The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Royal Appendix 58
Number 172-2
Number 5886-1
Number 1375-1
3. f. 4
For my pastime upon a dayA lover’s plaint — four quatrains (abab) plus 2-line burden:
‘Colle to me the rysshys grene Colle to me’ (repeated)
Number 1146-2
Number 6224-1
Number 2361-3
Number 4906-1
7. f. 6
Sith the time I knew you first‘Why soo vnkende’ — six couplets with three-line burden:
‘Why soo vnkende alas / Why soo vnkende to me / Soo to be kende to
me’
Number 3005-1
8. ff. 6
v-7
Kitt she wept I asked why soAn erotic carol — five quatrains and ten-line burden: ‘Kytt hathe
lost hur key hur key / Goode Kytt hath lost hure key / She ys soo sory for the cause /
She wottes nott what to say / She ys soo sory fore the cause / She wott not what to say
to say / Goode Kytt good Kytt / She ys soo sory for the cause / She wot not [what] to
say to say / Good Kytt’
Number 5005-1
9. f. 7
v Sore this deer stricken isWilliam Cornish, An enigmatic stricken deer carol — six cross-rhymed
quatrains with a 3-line burden: ‘Blow þy horn hunter and blow þi horne
on hye / Ther ys a do in yonder wode in faith she woll not dy / ow blow þi hore
hunter and blow þi horne joly hunter’
Number 445-1
Number 5378-1
Number 1045-1
Number 2595-1
13. f. 9
In the beginning of this yearA New Year Carol — one quatrain (aabb) and burden: ‘nay mary I nay
maye mary / I peter but ye must / nay mary I’
Number 5378-2
Number 5986-1
Number 920-1
Number 5682-1
Number 2595-2
18. f. 13
In the beginning of this yearA New Year Carol — one quatrain (aabb) and burden: ‘nay mary I nay
maye mary / I peter but ye must / nay mary I’
Number 1375-2
19. f. 14
v For my pastime upon a dayA lover’s plaint — four quatrains (abab) plus 2-line burden:
‘Colle to me the rysshys grene Colle to me’ (repeated)
Number 4016-1
Number 4442-1
Number 3729-1
Number 5873-1
Number 4374-1
Number 6308-1
Number 3656-1
26. ff. 23-24
My thought is full heavyA song of penitence — three 8-line stanzas with a 4-line refrain and a
3-line burden: ‘Now marcy Ihesu I wyll amend / And neuer more displease the / yff
grace thow wylt me send’
Number 1454-1
Number 5524-1
Number 5729.2-3
29. ff. 52
v-54
v This lovely lady sat and sangDialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Child — seven l0-line stanzas
(ababccdeed) including refrain, ‘To syng by by lully lulley’ plus 7-line
burden (aaabccb): ‘This enders nyght / I sawe a sight / A sterre as bryght / As
any day / & euer a monge / A maydyn songe / Lylley by by lully
lulley’
Number 3626-1