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Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 61 (SC 6922*)

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 71; Grid 478 318 (Leics).

Life of St Eustace

Life of St Eustace

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

‘How the Wyse Man Tawght His Son’ — 20 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

‘þe Goode Wyfe tauȝt hyr Douȝter’, a garbled version of 1098 — 208 lines in couplets, including the introduction of four lines

Sir Isumbras — in 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)

The Speculum Christiani version of the Ten Commandments occuring separately, with a unique stanza prefixed and three others appended

An expanded and altered version of Lydgate’s Stans Puer ad Mensam (3588) (abab) with a Prologue of six 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

Dame Curtasy’s moral instructions — 152 lines

‘Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to’, sometimes attributed to Sir John Fortescue — ten or twelve couplets

‘A deuout prayer toward thy bedde at nyght’ — six quatrains (abab)

A morning prayer — seven quatrains

An orison to the Virgin Mary in the Speculum Christiani (Octaua Tabula) — twenty-seven couplets

The Speculum Christiani version of the Ten Commandments occuring separately, with a unique stanza prefixed and three others appended

The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools — 288 lines in couplets

A prayer at the ‘leuacion’ — six 6-line stanzas

The Knight who forgave the Slayer of his Father (from Handlyng Synne, lines 3797-3910)

The Earl of Toulous — in 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)

Libeaus Desconus — mainly in 12-line stanzas (aabbccbddbeeb)

The ‘Romance of Sir Corneus’ or ‘The Cukwold’s Daunce’ — 255 lines, generally in 6-line stanzas

A miracle of the Virgin Mary: the Knight and his jealous wife

Tale of an incestuous daughter — at least 47 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

Sir Cleges — in 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)

The Founding of the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls

‘De Principio Creationis mundi’, an Englishing of Grosseteste’s Chateau d’Amour — in couplets

The ‘Legend of Ipotis’ — in couplets

‘Northern Passion’

The ‘Short Charter of Christ’ — couplets

A lament of the Virgin Mary — twelve 8-line stanzas. Every second stanza ends with ‘"ffor thy son dyȝed my dere sone dere’

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

Maydestone’s version of the Penitential Psalms — in 8-line stanzas (abababab)

‘Stimulus Conscientie Minor’ — in 8-line stanzas with Latin prose sub-headings of varying lengths

‘The Stasyons of Ierusalem’ — in couplets with occasional quatrains

Lamentacio Peccatoris, Prologue to the Adulterous Falmouth Squire (3348), a lament for the soul of William Basterfield, Knight — 99 lines in the longest text, mostly in 8-line stanzas

The story of the Resurrection — 605 lines in six-line stanzas (aabccb)

The Life of St. Margaret (later version)

The Wounds of Christ as Remedies against the Deadly Sins — eight quatrains

Sir Orfeo — in couplets

‘Vanyte’ — eleven stanzas rhyme royal

The Kyng and the Hermit — in l2-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)