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Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 176 (SC 6659)

The forsaken lover — six cross-rhymed quatrains followed by two couplets

A betrayed maiden’s lament — four macaronic quatrains

An erotic song — one quatrain

I can be wanton — six cross-rhyming quatrains

Farewell to a false love — three quatrains with a four-line burden: ‘Lost ys my love farewell adewe…’

‘Why art thow thus my mortall foe’ — one quatrain

The lover reproaches his mistress for her hard heart — seven 8-line stanzas including a 4-line refrain: ‘Adewe pleasure welcome mornynge / alas all payne nowe ys my part / for I see well that sweting / doth not consyder my true hart’

The sleepless lover — three eight-line stanzas, aaabcccb, or quatrains with internal rhyme, plus burden: ‘Saunce remedy [ ]payne dedly for my maystres…’

Christ’s appeal from the Cross — thirteen 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas with 3-line burden: ‘Cum ouer the borne Bessey / my lytyll prety bessey / comme ouer the bourne to m[e]’

On the absence of his mistress — three 6-line stanzas with a 6-line burden: ‘Parting, parting / I may well synge / hath caused all my payne / from her to part / yt greveth my hart / ye wot not whom I meane’

‘My lady loveth me’ — one quatrain

A lover’s complaint — one cross-rhymed quatrain

William Cornish, A complaint, perhaps of one exiled — one cross-rhymed quatrain

A chanson d’aventure of the unhappy lover — six 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas and a 2-line refrain: ‘This nyghtes rest’.

A song on the Princess Mary’s dancing with her father Henry VIII — six quatrains