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Found Records:
Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 36 (SC 14530)
Number 4770-1
1. ff. 1-1
v
Saint Valentine of custom year by year
John Lydgate, on Saint Valentine’s Day, of similar theme and content with
4769
, and having same first stanza — twelve rhyme royal stanzas
Number 2441-1
2. ff. 2-2
v
In a chamber as I stood
‘Seruice is noon heritage’ — nine 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with this refrain
Number 3237-1
3. ff. 2
v
-3
v
Lord what is this world weal
On the evils of the times and practical advice for amendment — twelve 8-line stanzas or twenty-two cross-rhymed quatrains
Number 6117-1
4. ff. 3
v
-4
Unto you most forward this letter I write
A satirical love letter written by a mistress to her lover — five stanzas rhyme royal
Number 3902-1
5. ff. 4-5
O fresh flower most pleasant of praise
A mocking love epistle by a lover in reply to his satirical mistress (see
6117
) — eight stanzas rhyme royal, with introductory and concluding couplets
Number 2776-1
6. f. 5
Iwis iwis I remember me
‘Why plesyth not age with no revylry’ — one 8-line stanza
Number 2230-1
7. f. 5
I ne have joy ne pleasance nor comfort
On the absence of his mistress — one stanza rhyme royal
Number 2550-1
8. f. 5
v
In my heart is there nothing of remembrance
To his Sovereign Lady — three stanzas rhyme royal
Number 573-1
9. ff. 6-9
v
As diverse doctors hath writ of the virtue
The Virtues of the Mass