The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, British Library Sloane 2593
Number 5866-1
Number 2630-1
2. ff. 2-2
v In the Vale of AbrahamA song of the Creation and Fall of Adam — eight quatrains (aaab) and
burden: ‘Now bething the gentilman / How Adam dalf and Eue
sp[an]’
Number 4738-1
3. ff. 2
v-3
Saint Nicholas was of great postA carol to St. Nicholas — seven irregular quatrains and burden:
‘Alle maydenis for godes grace / Worchepe ȝe seynt
nicolas’
Number 5797-1
Number 216
5. ff. 4-4
v Adam our father was in blissThe Prophets of the Old Testament — a song of ten quatrains with Latin
caudae and burden: ‘O flos de lesse virgula / Laus tibi sit et
gloria’
Number 1224-1
6. f. 4
v Every day thou might lereThink on Doomsday — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Gay gay gay
gay / Think on drydful domisday’
Number 859-1
7. f. 4
v Blessed be that maid MaryA Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: Eya jhesus hodie
/ Natus est de uirgine
Number 6781-2
8. f. 5
Women beth both good and sheenA song in praise of women — five quatrains with refrain, ‘Witnesse
on Marie’, and burden: ‘Wymmen beth bothe goude & truwe / Wytnesse on
marie’
Number 1673-1
Number 2792-1
10. f. 5
v Jesu as Thou art our saviorA song to Christ — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Jhesu jhesu
jhesu jhesu / Saf vs alle thorw thi vertu’
Number 6327-1
11. f. 6
When I have in my purse enough‘Gramersy myn owyn purs’ — four quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Syng we alle & sey we thus / Gramersy myn owyn purs’
Number 5891-2
12. ff. 6-6
v Though thou be king of tower and townVerses urging Man to make Amends — five quatrains (aaab) with refrain,
‘But if þou wylt amendis make’ and burden: ‘Synful man for godis
sake / I rede þat þou amendis make’
Number 3114-1
Number 5947-1
Number 113-1
15. ff. 7-7
v A man that should of truth tellTruth is unpopular: a carol — six quatrains and burden: ‘God be wit
trewthe qwer he be / I wolde he were in this cuntre’
Number 2098-1
Number 6877-1
Number 2407-1
Number 3418-1
Number 5275-1
20. ff. 9-9
v The first Joy as I You tellThe Five Joys of the Virgin Mary — five quatrains (aaab) with refrain,
‘Wiþ fader and sone and holy gost’ and burden: ‘I may synge of a
may / Of joyis fyve & merthis most’
Number 4404-2
21. f. 9
Pride is out and pride is inA song against Pride — five quatrains (aaab) and burden (bb): ‘Man
be war er þu be wo /Þink on pride & let hym goo’
Number 3172-1
Number 4774-3
23. ff. 9
v-10
Saluator mundi domineA macaronic Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Alleluya Alleluya deo patri sit gloria’
Number 3427-1
24. f. 10
Mary mother meek and mildA macaronic song of the Five Joys — five quatrains (aaab) with Latin
caudae and ‘Nowel’ burden: ‘Nowel el el el el el el el
el el el / Mary was gret with gabriel’
Number 4253-1
Number 2281-2
Number 2167-1
Number 2174-1
Number 215-1
Number 5476-1
30. f. 11
v The Son of grace him shineth inThe Son of Grace — a carol of four quatrains (abcb) and burden: ‘Al
the meryere is þat place / Þe sunne of grace schynit in’
Number 2172-1
Number 4333-1
Number 6264-1
33. f. 13
v Wheat is both seemly and sootIn praise of Wheat — six quatrains with refrain, ‘So blyssid be the
qwete flour’ and burden: ‘Of alle the spyces þat I knowe / Blyssid be
the qwete flour’
Number 2944-1
Number 2194-1
Number 615-2
36. f. 16
v As I me rose in a morningSong of the Virgin Mary lulling her Child — five quatrains and burden:
‘Modyr whyt os lyly flowr / Yowr lullyng lessyth my langovr’
Number 3769-3
37. ff. 17-18
v Now is the twelfth day I-comeAn Epiphany carol — seventeen 5-line stanzas (aaabb), and burden:
‘Reges de saba venient / Aurum tus myrram offerent’
Number 637-1
Number 925-6
Number 2722-1
Number 3357-1
Number 4761-1
Number 3424-1
Number 3113-3
Number 2641-3
45. ff. 24-24
v In this time Christ hath us sentA Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Make we mery
in hall & bowr / Thys tyme was born owr savyower’
Number 6875-1
46. ff. 24
v-25
Young men I warn you everyoneVerses against marrying elderly women — five quatrains with refrain,
‘I dar not seyȝ quan che seȝt pes’ and burden: ‘How hey it
is not les / I dar not seyȝ quan che seȝt pes’
Number 2771-2
Number 2043-2
Number 130-1
Number 5637-1
50. ff. 26-26
v Think man whereof thou art wroughtOf the Tokens of God’s Displeasure — eight quatrains (aaab) and
burden: ‘Man be wys & arys / & thynk on lyf þat lestenit
ay’
Number 6163-1
51. ff. 26
v-27
We bearen about none cats skinsA Pedlar’s carol (with double entendre) — four quatrains (abab) and
burden: ‘We ben chapmen lyȝt of fote / þe fowle weyis for to
fle’
Number 4361-1
52. f. 26
v Penny is an hardy knight‘Sir Peny’ — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Go bet
peny go bet go / For þou mat makyn bothe frynd & fo’
Number 2640-1
53. ff/ 27-27
v In this time a child was bornA song of the six festivals in honor of Christ: Nativity, Circumcision, etc.
— six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ’Man be glad in halle & bour / This
tyme was born our sauyour’
Number 736-1
Number 3-2
Number 5758-1
Number 2884-1
57. ff. 28-28
v Jesu of His mother was born‘Verbum caro factum est’ — six quatrains (aaab) with
‘He tok his deth for most & lest’ refrain and burden: ‘I may seyn
to most & lest / Verbum caro factum est’
Number 3825-1
Number 3117-1
59. ff. 29-29
v Listeneth lordings I you beseekThe Braggart and his Baselard — eight quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Prenegard prenegard / þus bere I myn baselard’
Number 4808-1
60. ff. 29
v-30
Semenaunt is a wonder thingA song of ‘Seeming’ — six quatrains and burden: ‘I may
seyn & so mown mo / Þat in semenaunt goth gyle’
Number 5583-1
Number 608-4
62. f. 30
v As I lay upon a nightA carol of the Annunciation — five quatrains (aaab) including refrain,
‘Redemptoris mater’ plus burden (bb): ‘Now syng we all in
fere / Alma redemptoris mater’
Number 2365-1
Number 6189-2
64. f. 32
Welcome be Thou heaven kingA Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with refrain, ‘Welcum
yole for euer & ay’ and burden: ‘Welcum yole in glod aray / In worchip
of the holeday’
Number 2257-1
65. ff. 32-32
v I saw a fair maiden sitten and singCradle song of the Virgin Mary — five couplets and burden: ‘Lullay
myn lykyng my dere sone myn swetyng / Lullay my dere herte myn owyn dere
derlyng’
Number 1190-1
Number 610-1
Number 5271-2
Number 2564-1
69. f. 34
In Patras there born he wasA song of St. Nicholas — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Mak ye
merie as ye may / & syng with me I you pray’
Number 635-1
Number 5255-2
71. f. 169
The Father of heaven his own Son he sentA ‘Lullay’ carol of the Nativity — in 3-line stanzas (aab)
including ‘So blyssid be the tyme’ refrain and burden: ‘A new yer a
newe yer a chyld was iborn / Vs for to sauyn þat al was forlorn / So blyssid be the
tyme’