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William Dunbar, ‘The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie’ — 552 lines in 8-line stanzas

William Dunbar, Of Sir Thomas Norray — nine 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Medtatioun in wynter’, 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Of the changes of life’ — four 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Of covetyce’ — eleven quatrains with refrain: ‘All all for causs of cuvetice’

William Dunbar, ‘Quhone mony benefices vakit’ — three 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, To the King — six five-line stanzas with refrain

William Dunbar, ‘Aganis the Solistaris in Court’ — thirteen couplets

William Dunbar, ‘Learning vain without guid lyfe’ or ‘Dunbar at Oxenfurde’ — three 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘A paralous lyfe is vain prosperitie’

William Dunbar, ‘Complaint to the King against Mure’ — four 7-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Aganis treason: Epitaphe for Donald Owre’ — eight 6-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis’ — 120 lines, generally in 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘A Complaint to the King’ — 76 lines, in couplets

William Dunbar, ‘The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar’ — eleven 6-line stanzas including 2-line refrain, ‘…Schir lat It neuer In toume be tald / That I suld be ane ȝowllis ȝald’, and a concluding ‘Responsio Regis’ in four couplets

William Dunbar, ‘The Devillis Inquest’ — thirteen or seventeen 5-line stanzas (aabab) with refrain, ‘Renunce ȝour god and cum to me’.

William Dunbar, ‘The twa cummeris’ — six 5-line stanzas with refrain

William Dunbar, ‘The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie’ — 552 lines in 8-line stanzas

William Dunbar, The Golden Targe — thirty-one 9-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘The tretis of the tua mariit wemen and the wedo’ — 530 lines in non-rhyming alliterative long lines

‘De regimene principum bonum consilium’ inserted in the Liber Pluscardiensis — 44 rhyme royal stanzas

The Duke of Orleans’ Defence of the Scots, an extract from Wyntoun’s Chronicle (658), occurring separately — 64 lines in couplets.

‘The Freiris of Berwick’, sometimes ascribed to William Dunbar — 589 lines in couplets (with introductory couplet: ‘As it befell and happinit into deid &c.’)

Attributed to King James I — 23 x 9-line stanzas, ababbcbcd including refr. ‘At chrystis kirk on the grene’

William Dunbar, ‘The Testament of Mr Andro Kennedy’ — thirteen 8-line macaronic stanzas and a concluding 12-line stanza

William Dunbar, ‘The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis’ — 120 lines, generally in 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas

‘The justis betuix the tailyeour and sowtar’, by William Dunbar — nine 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘The Merle and the Nichtingaill’ — fifteen eight-line stanzas with alternating refrains, ‘A lusty lyfe in luves seruice bene’ and ‘All luve is lost bot vpone god allone'’

‘Of deming’, possibly by William Dunbar — eleven 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘So sall I nocht vndemit be’

John Lydgate, ‘Rime without Accord’ or ‘On the Inconsistency of Men’s Actions’ — usually eleven 8-line stanzas with refrain

A macaronic prayer to the Trinity — twelve 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc); first two stanzas, ababbaba ababbaba; including refrain, ‘O lux beata trinitas’

Robert Henryson, ‘The Ressoning Betuix Aige and Yowth’ — nine 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc including alternate refrains, ‘O ȝowth be glaid into þi flouris grene’ and ‘O ȝowth þi flouris sedis fellone sone’

William Dunbar, ‘Of the Warldis Instabilitie’ — twenty-five quatrains with refrain, ‘For to considder is ane pane’

William Dunbar, ‘Ane orisoun quhen the governour past into France’ — five eight-line stanzas with refrain, ‘For but thy helpe this kynrick is forlorne’

‘A general satyre’ ascribed to William Dunbar (and also to James Inglis) — sixteen 5-line stanzas (aabab) with internal rhyme in first four lines (so ababcdcbb) including refrain, ‘Within þis land wes neuir hard nor sene’

William Dunbar, ‘Lament for the Makars’ — twenty-five quatrains with refrain: ‘Timor mortis conturbat me’

Gawin Douglas, On Conscience — four stanzas (ababbab)

‘Of manis mortalite’ by William Dunbar — six 8-line stanzas with refrain: ‘Quod tu in cinerem reverteris’

William Dunbar, To the King, ‘That he war Jhone Thomsonnis man’ — eight quatrains with refrain, ‘God ȝif ye war Johne Thomsonnis man’

William Dunbar, ‘Of the Warldis Vanitie’ — three 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas’

William Dunbar, A Remonstrance to the King — 88 lines in couplets

William Dunbar, ‘The tabill of confessioun’ — 19 stanzas, usually of 8 lines, ababbcbc, two of 10 lines, abababbcbc, with refrain, ‘I cry the mercy and lasar to repent’

William Dunbar, ‘Of the passioun of Christ’ — twelve 8-line stanzas with refrain: ‘O mankynd for the lufe of the’

‘Of the Passioun of Christ’ by William Dunbar — six 8-line stanzas with refrain: ‘Thys blissit saluator chryst Iesu’

Walter Kennedy, ‘The Praise of Aige’, — five 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, including refrain, ‘Honour with aige to every vertew drawis’

‘The Danger of Wryting’, attributed to William Dunbar — seven 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Thus wait I nocht quhairof to wryt’

William Dunbar, ‘Ane his awin ennemy’ — five 5-line stanzas with alternating refrains, ‘He wirkis sorow to him sell’ and ‘I gif him to the dewill of hell’

William Stewart, ‘Largess of this New Year Day’ — ten 5-line stanzas (aabab) and burden: ‘Lerges lerges lerges ay / Lerges of this new yeirday’

William Dunbar, ‘Without glaidnes awailis no tressour’ — five 8-line stanzas including this refrain

‘Think on thy end and thow sall never syn’ — five 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘In baill be blyth for it is best’ — five 8-line stanzas with this refrain

‘Advice to spend anis awin gude’ by William Dunbar — ten quatrains with refrain: ‘man spend thy gude quhill thow hes space’

King Hart, attributed to Gavin Douglas — 960 lines in 8-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Of discretioun in asking’ — nine 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘In asking sowld discretioun be’

William Dunbar, ‘Of discretioun in geving’ — twelve 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘In geving sowld discretioun be’

William Dunbar, ‘Of discretioun in taking’ — ten 5-line stanzas including refrain: ‘In taking sowld discretioun be’

William Dunbar, ‘The Dregy maid to the kyng’ — 110 lines in couplets and responses of six lines, ababcc

‘Leaulte vault Richesse,’ on the Instability of Worldly Joy — one eight-line stanza (ababbcbc)

Walter Kennedy, ‘Pious Counsale’ — two 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

A political prophecy for Scotland’s prosperity in A.D. 1581, incorporating a version of the Abuses of the Age — 14 lines in couplets

Four moralizing couplets

A moralizing couplet, included in a longer series of proverbs against lending money

The Abuses of the Age: rhyming lines ending in -les

Two couplets on the incommodities of lending

Moralizing lines on lending money — eight lines

William Dunbar, ‘In prais of wemen’ — 34 lines in couplets

William Dunbar, To the King — seventeen 5-line stanzas with refrain: ‘Exces of thocht dois me mischeif’

Walter Kennedy, ‘Ane Aigit Manis Invective against Mouþ þankless’ — seven 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, including refr. phrase, ‘…mowth thankless’

William Dunbar, ‘Of Content’ — seven 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Ane Brash of Wowing’ — nine 7-line stanzas including alternating refrains, ‘ȝe brek my hart my bony ane’ and ‘ffull leifis me ȝour graceles gane’

Robert Henryson, ‘Aganis haisty Credence of Titlaris’ — seven 8-line stanzas with refrain phrase, ‘…credence’

Robert Henryson, ‘The Abbay Walk’ — seven 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, including the refrain, ‘Obey and thank thy god of all’

William Dunbar, ‘Of lyfe’ — one stanza rhyme royal

Stewart, ‘The Variance of Court’ — ten 5-line stanzas aabab, including refrain phrase ‘gud seruys’

‘Of deming’, possibly by William Dunbar — eleven 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘So sall I nocht vndemit be’

William Dunbar, ‘Tydingis fra the sessioun’ — eight seven-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Of the changes of life’ — four 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Quhone mony benefices vakit’ — three 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Aganis the Solistaris in Court’ — thirteen couplets

William Dunbar, ‘Learning vain without guid lyfe’ or ‘Dunbar at Oxenfurde’ — three 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘A paralous lyfe is vain prosperitie’

William Dunbar, ‘þe amendis to þe telyouris and sowtaris for the turnament maid on thame’ — ten quatrains with refrain, ‘Teȝouris and sowtaris blist be ȝe’

William Dunbar, ‘Medtatioun in wynter’, 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘All erdly joy returnis in pane’ — ten quatrains with this refrain

William Dunbar, ‘To a ladye’ — three 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, To the King — six five-line stanzas with refrain

‘To a Ladye quhone he list to feyne’, by William Dunbar — seven stanzas rhyme royal

William Dunbar, ‘How sall I governe me’ — ten 5-line stanzas with this refrain ‘lord god how sould I governe me’

William Dunbar, ‘Of the ladyis solistaris at court’ — six twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Ballate aganis Evill Women’, attributed to William Dunbar — six stanzas rhyme royal

William Dunbar, ‘Ane orisoun’ — one 8-line stanza

Moralizing verses on the inevitability of death — five quatrains (abab), including refrain phrase, ‘…doutles þow man de’

Robert Henryson, ‘The Thre Deid Pollis’ — eight 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Lak of Stedfastnesse’ — four stanzas rhyme royal, including one-stanza Envoy

‘Sir Penny’ — seven 8-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘For in this warld may non assure’ — seventeen 5-line stanzas with this refrain

William Dunbar, ‘How Dunbar wes desyred to be ane freir’ — ten 5-line stanzas

‘The birth of Antichrist’ (or a Dream of Fortune) by William Dunbar — ten 5-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘The Wooing of the King quhen he wes in Dumfermeling’ (The Tod and the Lamb) — ten seven-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘Best to be blyth’ — eight 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘ffor to be blyth me think it best’

Erthe upon Erthe

Three impossibilities — three couplets

William Dunbar, ‘Of James Doig, kepar of the quenis wardrop’ — six quatrains with refrain ‘madam ȝe heff an dangerous dog’

William Dunbar, ‘Of the same James [Dog, keeper of the Queen’s Wardrobe] quhen he hed plesett him’ — six quatrains (aabb) including refrain: ‘He is na dog he is a lam’

William Dunbar, ‘Of a dance in the quenis chalmer’ — seven 7-line stanzas

William Dunbar, ‘On ane blakmoir’ — five 5-line stanzas with refrain, ‘My ladye with the mekle lippis’

‘To the Quene’ by William Dunbar: a warning against catching the pox — seven 5-line stanzas incl. refr. phrase, ‘…of þe pockis’

Richard Hatfeld, A ‘punctuation’ poem against women (two interpretations according to the punctuation adopted) — one stanza rhyme royal