The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Addit. 5943
Number 6780-1
1. ff. iv, vi
Women been fair for to…In praise of women and the Virgin Mary — four 3-line stanzas and burden:
‘Of alle thynges that god …’
Number 5217-1
Number 5147-3
Number 5683-2
Number 2362-1
5. f. 145
v If I held the low assizePolitic counsels — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Lord how
scholde I roule me / Of al men I preysyd to be’
Number 2254-2
Number 5804-1
7. f. 162
This Yule this YuleBe Merry at Christmas — two quatrains (aabb) and six-line burden
(aabbcc)
Number 6208-1
Number 6073-1
Number 3456-1
Number 1096-1
11. f. 166
Danger me hath unskilfully‘Lyue boþe glad and myryly’ — seven lines, 5 lines
(ababa) plus (?)2-line refrain (cd), ‘ffor suþþe hyt ys here wylle /
bote yf y myȝt more þan y may’
Number 4348-1
Number 734-1
Number 1084-1
14. f. 168
v Credo in deumA statement of belief and assurance of the bliss that is its reward — ten
lines in a cross-rhymed quatrain (perhaps the burden?) and a tail-rhymed 6-line
stanza
Number 606-1
15. f. 169
As I lay upon a nightA Dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Infant — thirty-seven
quatrains (abab) with refrain ‘Alone in my longyng’ and two-line burden:
‘Lullay lullay la lullay / My dere moder lullay’
Number 1548-2
Number 2155-1
Number 3453-1
Number 719-1
19. f. 170
v At the north end of silver white‘Silver White’, an erotic song — three 8-line stanzas with
repeated lines (abacdbdc) and refrain of four repeated lines (efeg; as conclusion
below)
Number 5386-7
20. f. 178
v The man that I loved alderbestA Love Complaint, for two voices — six quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Wolde god that hyt were so / As I cowde wysshe bytuyxt vs
too’
Number 2569-1
Number 1173-1
22. f. 182
v Ecce ancilla dominiA song of the Annunciation — in 8-line stanzas with the refrain,
‘Ecce ancilla domini’