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Oxford, Bodleian Library Arch. Selden B. 26 (SC 3340)

‘Amende me and peyre me nauȝt’ — six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘I pray yow all wyth o thowght / Amende me and peyre me nowght’

A Christmas carol with palindromic rhymes — five quatrains (aaab) with refrain and burden: ‘Nowel syng we bothe al and som / Now Rex Pacificus ys ycome’

Of 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’

A Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with ‘Good day’ refrain and burden: ‘Go day go day / My lord syre cristemasse go day’

A macaronic song in praise of the Virgin Mary — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Off a rose synge we / Misterium mirabile’

A macaronic Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with Latin caudae and burden (b): Letabundus exultet fidelys chorus Alleluia

A song in praise of the Virgin Mary — seven quatrains (aaaa) with refrain ‘Regina celi letare’, and burden: ‘Synge we to this mery cumpane / Regina celi letare’

A carol of the Annunciation — five quatrains (aaab) including refrain, ‘Redemptoris mater’ plus burden (bb): ‘Now syng we all in fere / Alma redemptoris mater’

A macaronic hymn of the Nativity — six quatrains with refrain, Ave domina and burden: Ave domina / Celi regina

A Christmas carol — six five-line stanzas (aaabb) with ‘Nowel’ refrain and burden (b):‘Nowel nowel nowel nowel nowel nowel’

A macaronic carol of the Nativity — five quatrains with burden: ‘Make we ioye nowe in this fest / In quo Cristus natus est / Eya’

A New Year carol — four 7-line stanzas (ababccd) including 3-line refrain, plus 2-line burden (cd): ‘Qwat tydynges bryngyst þu massager / Of cristys berthe þis ȝolys day’

The Agincourt Carol — six 5-line stanzas (aaaab) including refrain: ‘Deo gracias’, and burden (cc): ‘Deo gracias Anglia / Redde pro victoria’

A song of the Virgin Mary and Joseph — sixteen quatrains (a virelai)

‘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’

A macaronic song of the Nativity — thirty-eight lines generally in 6-line stanzas

A carol of the Nativity — six stanzas, aaabab (st. 1 differs) with ‘Alleluya’ burden

An Annunciation carol — six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Hayl mary ful of grace / Moder in virginite’

Hymn to the Virgin — one irregular quatrain

A Nativity carol — four quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘An heuenly songe y dare wel say / Is sunge in erthe to man this day’

Types 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’

A macaronic drinking song in Latin, English, and French — six lines

A carol to the Virgin Mary — seven quatrains (abab) and burden (cc): ‘Nouus sol de virgine / Reluxit nobis hodie’

Ave Maria — one stanza and burden

A Christmas carol — five 6-line stanzas (aaabab) and burden: ‘Nowel nowel nowel / To vs is born owr god emanuel’

A macaronic carol of the Nativity — six quatrains (abab) and four-line Latin burden: ‘Laus, honor, virtus, gloria / Et tibi decus Maria’ (repeated)

A Christmas carol — five quatrains (aaab) with ‘Qui natus fuit hodie’ refrain and burden: ‘Iblessid be þat lord in mageste / Qui natus fuit hodie’

A carol of the Incarnation — five three-line stanzas (aaa) + burden (bb): ‘VEni redemptor gencium / veni redemptor gencium’

Think 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’

A catch for drinking, for three voices — six lines

Satirical verses against his Mistress — two 8-line stanzas (abababab)

‘Ouidius de remedio amoris’ — one quatrain