The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. misc. c.66 [olim Capesthorne]
Linguistic note:
McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)
XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin.
A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English.
4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press,
1986
and
Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 104 (Cheshire: ff. 92v-95, 101v, 103v, 104, 106-111v); 1.149 (Cheshire: ff. 123, 124v-127).
Number 6640-3
1. f. 101b
v Whoso will beware of purchasing‘Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to’, sometimes
attributed to Sir John Fortescue — ten or twelve couplets
Number 6054-1
Number 2310-1
Number 461.5-1
Number 2110-1
Number 2226-1
Number 1421-1
Number 3670-1
Number 1220-1
Number 1938-1
Number 935-1
Number 6485-1
Number 4384-1
Number 3561-1
Number 1219-1
Number 785-1
Number 2247-1
Number 1270-1
Number 4114-1
Number 911-1
Number 1532-1
Number 1220-2
Number 259-1
Number 3643-1
Number 1938-2
Number 3584-1
Number 6205-2
Number 6299-6
28. f. 104
rb When faith fails in priests sawsA ‘Prophecy’, attributed sometimes to Chaucer and sometimes to
Merlin — six lines — four 8-line stanzas (same three rhymes
throughout).
Number 2869-4
Number 4262-1
30. ff. 106
v-107
On cliff that castle so knetteredAn alliterative poem (with some phrases from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
describing a castle, the approach of summer, and love-making, perhaps by Humfrey Newton
— 53 alliterative lines in rhyming quatrains
Number 1538-1
Number 6394-1
Number 5425-2
Number 4791-1
Number 1336-1