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Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Addit. 5943

In praise of women and the Virgin Mary — four 3-line stanzas and burden: ‘Of alle thynges that god …’

Three unmanageable things — three lines, without rhyme

‘He is thi Frende’ — four monorhyming lines

The Complaint of the Child Jesus to his Mother — nine six-line stanzas (aabccb) and burden: ‘Lullay my chyld & wepe no more / Slepe & be now styll / The kyng of blys this fader ys / As it was hys wyll’

Politic counsels — five quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Lord how scholde I roule me / Of al men I preysyd to be’

On the Choice of Friends — nine lines in two stanzas (ababa + cdcd)

Be Merry at Christmas — two quatrains (aabb) and six-line burden (aabbcc)

A warning against false friends — one 6-line stanza (aabccb)

Devotion to his mistress — one 8-line stanza (ababcdcd)

Grace for a Winchester civic feast — a two-part song, two quatrains (abab)

‘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’

An Orison — one l0-line stanza (ababccdccd)

Ave Maria — ten lines, of which first four may be burden (abab), remaining six a stanza (ccdccd)

A 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

A 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’

A prayer and conjuration against robbers — four couplets

A charm against thieves — in couplets

An erotic song — three 9-line stanzas (abcdbdddb)

‘Silver White’, an erotic song — three 8-line stanzas with repeated lines (abacdbdc) and refrain of four repeated lines (efeg; as conclusion below)

A Love Complaint, for two voices — six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Wolde god that hyt were so / As I cowde wysshe bytuyxt vs too’

A love lyric — four cross-rhymed quatrains

A song of the Annunciation — in 8-line stanzas with the refrain, ‘Ecce ancilla domini’