Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

Found Records:

Oxford, Bodleian Library Lyell 34 [olim John Speed Davies]

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)

XMichael Benskin, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos, and Keith Williamson. An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. = ‘eLALME’. Edinburgh, 2013. [http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html]

LP 5800; Grid 532 160 (Surrey).

2. back cover He that oweth much and hath nought / and spendeth much and getteth nought

Proverbial rhymes on ‘Nought’ — two quatrains and a couplet

3. f. 194 Wit hath wonder that reason ne tell can

‘Sensus miratur que racio dicere nescit’, etc., often ascribed to Reginald Pecock (see Babington (1860)

XBabington, Churchill. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy, by Reginald Pecock. 2 vols. Rolls Series 19 (1860; repr. Kraus, 1966)

, 2.623) — two couplets

4. ff. 203-204 In the day of fast and spiritual affliction

’Balat set upponne the yates of Caunterbury’ inserted in a prose chronicle (ante 1471) — ten 8-line macaronic stanzas (ababbcbc) and concluding 6-line stanza (aabccb)