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Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat. misc. c.66 [olim Capesthorne]

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (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).

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

‘The ABC of Aristotle’ — varying number of couplets

A ‘sotelty’ for a bridal feast — five lines

A sotelty for a bridal feast — one couplet

A ‘sotelty’ for a bridal feast — three irregular lines

A ‘sotelty’ for a bridal feast — one couplet

Humfrey Newton, To his mistress — four quatrains with refrain, ‘for ye haue my hert for euer more’

An Epistle to his mistress by Humfrey Newton — seventeen quatrains

Humfrey Newton, an acrostic to Elin — one quatrain

Humfrey Newton, On his mistress — one stanza rhyme royal (with acrostic Hvmfrey)

Humfrey Newton, Venus brings a maiden to the disinterested man — sixteen quatrains

Humfrey Newton, A love adventure praising love — ten quatrains

Humfrey Newton, a poem on the months — three stanzas rhyme royal

A love letter to his mistress by Humfrey Newton — one 8-line stanza (acrostic on MARGARET)

Humfrey Newton, a love letter to his best beloved mistress, with acrostic on Elin — one quatrain

Humfrey Newton, On her (or his?) lover, an acrostic on BRIAN — one stanza rhyme royal

Humfrey Newton, A love letter to his mistress ‘M’ — one quatrain and eleven couplets

Humfrey Newton, his mistress gets a separation from her lover — three 8-line stanzas

Humphrey Newton, A love letter to his mistress — twelve quatrains

Humfrey Newton, A love letter to his mistress — eight quatrains with refrain, ‘…my hert wold berst’

Humfrey Newton, An epistle to his mistress — eleven couplets

Humfrey Newton, an acrostic to Elin — one quatrain

Humfrey Newton, A lover’s lament — seven 8-line stanzas

A love letter to his mistress by Humfrey Newton — four quatrains

Humfrey Newton, On his mistress — one stanza rhyme royal (with acrostic Hvmfrey)

Words of the bird of paradise accompanying an illustration of same — two couplets

A ‘Prophecy’, attributed sometimes to Chaucer and sometimes to Merlin — six lines — four 8-line stanzas (same three rhymes throughout).

Richard de Caistre’s hymn — twelve quatrains

An 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

John Lydgate, On the Nightingale as a symbol of Christ — fifty-nine rhyme royal stanzas including a dedication of six stanzas

Fragment beginning of a Humphrey Newton poem — four lines in couplets

The number of the Wounds of Christ and the number of the Drops of Blood from these Wounds — nine lines

A rubric recommending prayer to the Heart of Christ — two couplets

A couplet in a scroll attached to a drawing of the wound in Christ’s heart