The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ff.2.38
Number 4312-2
Number 3075-2
2. ff. 6
ra-10
ra Lief Lord my soul Thou spareThe nine lessons of the Dirige or ‘Pety Iob’ —
fifty-seven 12-line stanzas with refrain, Parce michi domine
Number 6159-1
Number 422-3
4. ff. 14
va-19
rb Almighty God in Trinity‘Stimulus Conscientie Minor’ — in 8-line stanzas with
Latin prose sub-headings of varying lengths
Number 437-1
Number 2084-2
Number 609-1
7. ff. 28
ra-31
va As I me lay alone in bedA variant version of Thomas Brampton’s Seven Penitential Psalms:
124 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Ne reminiscaris
domine’
Number 1705-1
Number 5843-3
Number 4744-1
Number 4403-1
Number 5120-1
Number 2987-1
Number 1811-1
Number 6744-3
Number 122-2
16. ff. 40
va-45
ra A mery tale y telle yow may
The Assumption of Our Lady (earliest version) — in couplets, with
a Prologue of ten lines
Number 398-2
Number 6650-2
Number 5309-1
Number 3103-1
Number 1016-2
Number 3119-1
Number 4148-1
23. ff. 55
vb-56
rb Of all women that ever were bornThe Lamentation of the Virgin Mary — eleven 8-line stanzas with refrain,
‘For now lyeth dedd my dere sone dere’
Number 3348-3
Number 3117.5-1
Number 3125-1
Number 2813-3
Number 2867-2
Number 1924-2
Number 3132-1
Number 3250-1
Number 4984-2
Number 224-1
Number 4908-1
Number 3123-1
Number 575-1
36. ff. 239
va-254
rb As far as men ride or goon
Le Bone Florence of Rome, the romance of the Chaste Empress — 2189
lines in 12-line stanzas
Number 4415-3
Number 3116-3