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Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Hh.4.12

‘Cato Major’

‘Parvus Cato’ (Burgh)

Stans Puer ad Mensam, ascribed to Lydgate — fourteen stanzas rhyme royal, with Envoy

‘Sensus miratur que racio dicere nescit’, etc., often ascribed to Reginald Pecock (see Babington (1860), 2.623) — two couplets

John Lydgate, ‘Legend of St. Austin at Compton’ — fifty-one 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), including envoy

Chaucer, The Former Age [Aetas Prima] — eight 8-line stanzas

A Complaint of Christ — sixteen 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with the refrain, ‘Quia amore langueo’

Moral counsel — a fragment of three lines

’Hors, Goose and Shepe’

John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum — 130 stanzas rhyme royal, including Envoy

John Lydgate, ‘The Chorle and the Birde’ — fifty-four stanzas rhyme royal including 2-stanza envoy, plus one 8-line ‘Verba translatoris’ (ababbcbc)

John Lydgate, ‘Consulo quisque eris’ — fifteen 8-line stanzas

John Lydgate, ‘A dyte of womenhis hornys’ — ten 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) including four-stanza envoy

‘Why artow froward sith I am mercyable?’ (Lydgate)

John Lydgate, ‘Midsomer Rose’ — fifteen 8-line stanzas

On the Mutability of Man’s Nature due to the Seasons, the Elements, the Complexions, and the Planets

‘The Lamentacioun of the Duchess of Glossester’ (1447) — 13 eight-line stanzas including refrain: ‘All women may be ware by me’

The difficulty of choosing a profession in religion — twenty-one
8-line stanzas, with refrain, ‘Allas quid eligam ignoro’

Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules — 98 stanzas rhyme royal