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Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 686 (SC 2527)

Linguistic note: South Worcestershire (Horobin (2003), pp. 147-8).

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer, the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales — 858 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 2249 lines in couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight-Miller link in the Canterbury Tales — 78 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Miller’s Tale in the Canterbury Tales — 666 lines in rhyming couplets

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Reeve’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 66 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Reeve’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 404 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Cook’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 40 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Cook’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 58 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Introduction to the Man of Law’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 98 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Man of Law’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 35 lines (five stanzas) in rhyme royal.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Man of Law’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 1026 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 856 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional lines.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 408 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional lines.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Friar’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 36 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Friar’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 364 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Sommoner’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 44 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Summoner’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 586 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Clerk’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales —56 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Clerk’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales —1155 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Clerk’s Endlink’/‘The Host’s Stanza’ of the Canterbury Tales —one 7-line rhyme royal stanza.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Merchant’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 32 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Merchant’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 1174 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Merchant’s Endlink’ of the Canterbury Tales — 22 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Squire’s Headlink’ of the Canterbury Tales — 8 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Squire’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 664 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Franklin’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 896 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Physician’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 286 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Host’s Words’/‘Physician-Pardoner Link’ of the Canterbury Tales — 42 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 136 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 506 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Shipman’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 434 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Shipman-Prioress Link’ of the Canterbury Tales — 18 lines in couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prioress’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 35 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prioress’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 203 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prologue to Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales — 21 lines in 7-line, rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales — 207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Thopas-Melibee Link’ in the Canterbury Tales — 48 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Manciple’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 258 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prologue of the Second Nun’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 119 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Second Nun’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 434 lines in rhyme royal stanzas.

Verses on the Kings of England (Lydgate)

Stans Puer ad Mensam, ascribed to Lydgate — fourteen stanzas rhyme royal, with Envoy

John Lydgate, ‘Dietary’ — ten 8-line stanzas

John Lydgate, ‘Riȝt as the crabbe goth forward’ — seven eight-line stanzas with this refrain (Envoy included)

John Lydgate, ‘Rammeshorne’ — seven 8-line stanzas including refrain, ‘As ryȝth as a rams horne’ or ‘A resoun of the Rammeshorne’

A wikked tong wol alway deme amis

John Lydgate, Life of St Margaret — seventy-seven stanzas rhyme royal including an eleven-stanza prologue and three-stanza Envoy

John Lydgate, ‘Legend of St. George’ — thirty-five stanzas rhyme royal

John Lydgate, Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Our Lady — in rhyme royal including Prologues and an Envoy

Dance of Macabre