The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Oxford, Bodleian Library Arch. Selden B. 26 (SC 3340)
Number 2050-2
Number 1241-1
2. f. 7
Exortum est in love and lissA Christmas carol with palindromic rhymes — five quatrains (aaab) with
refrain and burden: ‘Nowel syng we bothe al and som / Now Rex Pacificus ys
ycome’
Number 3350-1
3. f. 7
v Man have in mind how here beforeOf Divine Mercy — six quatrains (aaab) + burden (bb): ‘Aske
þou mercy whill þou may’, and burden (bb): ‘Man assay assay assay
/ and aske mercy quyls þat þu may’
Number 1643-1
Number 5744-1
5. f. 9
v This rose is railed on a riceA macaronic song in praise of the Virgin Mary — five quatrains (aaab) and
burden: ‘Off a rose synge we / Misterium mirabile’
Number 3817-1
6. f. 10
Now well may me mirths makeA macaronic Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with Latin
caudae and burden (b): Letabundus exultet fidelys chorus
Alleluia
Number 2043-1
Number 608-1
8. f. 13
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 6796-1
9. f. 14
Worship be the birth of theeA macaronic hymn of the Nativity — six quatrains with refrain, Ave
domina and burden: Ave domina / Celi regina
Number 4337-1
10. f. 14
v Out of your sleep arise and wakeA Christmas carol — six five-line stanzas (aaabb) with
‘Nowel’ refrain and burden (b):‘Nowel nowel nowel nowel
nowel nowel’
Number 137-1
11. f. 15
A patre unigenitusA macaronic carol of the Nativity — five quatrains with burden:
‘Make we ioye nowe in this fest / In quo Cristus natus est /
Eya’
Number 4-2
Number 4317-1
13. ff. 17
v-18
Our king went forth to NormandyThe Agincourt Carol — six 5-line stanzas (aaaab) including refrain:
‘Deo gracias’, and burden (cc): ‘Deo gracias Anglia /
Redde pro victoria’
Number 607-1
Number 2339-1
15. f. 19
I-blessed be Christs sonde‘God spede the plowe alle way’ — nine 3-line stanzas (aab)
with 3-line burden: ‘The Merthe of alle þis londe / maketh þe gode
husbonde / wiþ eringe of his plowe’
Number 1512-1
Number 131-1
Number 5335-1
Number 1699-1
Number 5719-1
Number 3156-1
21. f. 24
Lo Moses bush shining unbrentTypes of the Virgin Mary: Burning bush, Gideon’s fleece, Aaron’s
rod, Star of Jacob — a song of five quatrains (aaab) and 3-line burden:
‘Hayl godys sone in trinite / Te secund in diuinite / Thy moder is a
may’
Number 1307-1
Number 5827-1
23. f. 25
v Thou holy daughter of SionA carol to the Virgin Mary — seven quatrains (abab) and burden (cc):
‘Nouus sol de virgine / Reluxit nobis hodie’
Number 1697-1
Number 2482-1
25. f. 27
v In Bethlehem this bird
of lifeA Christmas carol — five 6-line stanzas (aaabab) and burden:
‘Nowel nowel nowel / To vs is born owr god emanuel’
Number 161
26. f. 28
A song to sing I have good rightA macaronic carol of the Nativity — six quatrains (abab) and four-line
Latin burden: ‘Laus, honor, virtus, gloria / Et tibi decus Maria’
(repeated)
Number 5152-1
27. f. 28
v That lord that lay in an ass stallA Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with ‘Qui natus fuit
hodie’ refrain and burden: ‘Iblessid be þat lord in mageste /
Qui natus fuit hodie’
Number 5798-1
28. f. 29
This world wondereth of all thingA carol of the Incarnation — five three-line stanzas (aaa) + burden (bb):
‘VEni redemptor gencium / veni redemptor gencium’
Number 202-1
29. f. 29
v Abide I hope it be the bestThink before you act — five 2-line stanzas and 4-line burden:
‘Abyde Y hope hit be the beste [repeated twice] / Sith hasty man lakked neuer
woo’
Number 5117-1
Number 6190-1
Number 2403-1