Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

The Digital Index of Middle English Verse

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Found Records:

London, British Library Sloane 3160

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)

XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1986

and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013)

XMichael Benskin, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos, and Keith Williamson. An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. = ‘eLALME’. Edinburgh, 2013. [http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html]

LP 8320; Grid 592 254 (Suffolk: Hand A, ff. 4-21); 1.116 (Midland: Hand C, ff. 25-86v); 1.116 (Derbys or Cheshire: Hand E, ff. 91-96v); 1.116 (Staffs: Hand F, ff. 97-98v); 1.116 (Warwicks/Worcs: Hands H and I, ff. 102-141v); 1.116 (‘…extreme NW Derbys or over into Cheshire’: Hand J, ff. 142-146, 146v-147v); 1.116 (Midland: Hand K, f. 147v); 1.116 (Midland: Hand L, ff. 148-150v); 1.116 (Staffs: Hand M, f. 151r-v; LP 314; Grid 410 388 (Derbys: also Hand M, ff. 166-170); LP 718; Grid 403 368 (Staffs: Hand O, ff. 153-160); LP 729; Grid 398 349 (Staffs: Hand P, ff. 160-165v).

1. f. 24v All with a throw and a low and a lullay

Two English lines

2. f. 71v Wit hath wonder that reason ne tell can

‘Sensus miratur que racio dicere nescit’, etc., often ascribed to Reginald Pecock (see Babington (1860)

XBabington, Churchill. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy, by Reginald Pecock. 2 vols. Rolls Series 19 (1860; repr. Kraus, 1966)

, 2.623) — two couplets

3. f. 137v To the Holy Ghost my goods I bequeath

A charm against thieves — seventeen lines, possibly in ten-line stanzas

4. ff. 149-150 The masters that usen blood letting

Poem on Phlebotomy or Bloodletting — in couplets, often with an introduction of six lines, for a total of 90 lines

5. f. 152 Jesu Christ I Thee beseech

A morning prayer to God, Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. Michael, etc. — seven 6-line stanzas

6. f. 153 Ipocras made this book / Whoso will therein look

Verses at the end of a Book of Medicines

7. f. 173v When I had nought I did give

A promise to repay in time — six irregular lines