The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 187 (SC 2090)
Number 3267-1
1. f. 196b
Love God over all thingLove God, thyself, thy friend and thy foe (4 lines), a tag in the Fasciculus
morum
Number 6164-1
2. f. 132
va We been executors of this deedOn false executors, a tag in the Fasciculus morum — 6 lines
translating French verse inscriptions cited in a story about a rich
cleric.
Number 5103-1
Number 3758-2
Number 1981-1
5. f. 157
v Here is comen that no man wotA dialogue in a Latin nemo joke with a Latin line between the two
English lines — a couplet tag in the Fasciculus morum
Number 4331-1
6. f. 159
vb Our wisdom this world has bereftA tag in the Fasciculus morum regarding how war and famine overthrew
Rome — four lines translating a Latin interpretation of an
inscription
Number 264-1
Number 5911-1
8. f. 160
rb Through ferly death together aren foldeOn sudden death, a tag in the
Fasciculus morum — two couplets
translating ‘the punning speeches of the Parisian
literati’ (
Wenzel (1978)
XWenzel, Siegfried.
Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle
English Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978
, 171)
Number 5367-1
Number 5157-2
Number 2998-2
11. f. 161
va-161
vb King I sit and look aboutThe Vicissitudes of Life, a tag in the Fasciculus morum — four
couplets, translating Latin lines, each spoken by a king on the Wheel of
Fortune
Number 345-1
Number 4917-1
Number 5450-1
Number 5786-2
Number 5140-1
Number 4516-2
17. f. 170
va Round in shapingOn the Host (6 lines, aaaabb), a tag in the Fasciculus Morum translating
a Latin divisio of six physical qualities of the Host
Number 3167-1
Number 6592-1
19. f. 178
rb Whole and healing sooth and sorrowingThe qualities of a good confession, a tag in the Fasciculus Morum
— one couplet directly translating ‘integra et festina / vera et
amara’
Number 1839-1
20. f. 178
vb He may be thy bootA tag in the Fasciculus morum, the introductory line to an
aphorism
Number 265-1
Number 1642-4
Number 1312-1
23. f. 184
vb Fire water wind and landThe use and benefits of prayer: inscriptions accompanying an image of Prayer
— four couplets in the Fasciculus morum
Number 6647-1
Number 3381-2
25. ff. 186
vb Man that life upholdest / think when thou art oldestDo good while you may (6 lines), a tag in the
Fasciculus Morum; listed
by
Wenzel (1978)
XWenzel, Siegfried.
Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle
English Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978
as ‘When þou þy lyfe
vp-holdyste…’
Number 5142-1
26. f. 187
vb That I spent that I hadOn impediments to almsgiving: inscriptions in four rings found in a sarcophagus
(4 lines), a tag in the Fasciculus Morum, with each English translation directly
following its Latin equivalent
Number 5151-1
27. f. 202
va That law hath no rightThe subversions effected by carnal love (4 lines), a tag in the Fasciculus
morum
Number 5148-3
28. f. 204
vb That is merry to be a wifeA tag in the Fasciculus morum translating a Latin hexameter from Seneca,
Controversia 6.8, ‘Felices nupte moriar quia nubere
dulce’
Number 6618-1
Number 6443-1
Number 5551-3
Number 2509-3
32. f. 211
va In heart clean and buxomThree lines in the Fasciculus morum translating the divisio of a
Latin sermon for the Feast of St. John the Evangelist
Number 3770-1
Number 661-1
34. f. 216
ra As much as was worshipA tag in the
Fasciculus morum (
Foster (1940)
XFoster, Frances Allen.
“Some English Words from the Fasciculus Morum.”
Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown.
Percy Waldron
Long
New York: NYU Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Pres,
1940: 149-57
, sermons no.5)
— one couplet translating a sermon theme, 1 Macc. 1.42
Number 1013-1