The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.3.58 (1230)
Number 5335-2
Number 6020-3
2. Art. 12
To thee now Christs dear darlingHymn to St. John the Evangelist — four quatrains (abac) including
refrain, ‘Amice Christi Iohannes’, plus burden(dc): ‘Pray for
vs to the prince of peace / Amice Crysty Iohannes’
Number 2481-5
3. no. 6 (on a roll)
In Bethlehem that fair cityA Christmas carol — four quatrains each ending with a Latin line, and
burden: ‘To blys God bryng vs al & sum / Christe redemptor
omnium’
Number 5652-2
4. a roll, item 4
This babe to us that now is bornA Christmas carol — five six-line stanzas (ababcc) with three-line
refrain, ‘And thus it is / forsothe iwys / He askyth nouth but that is hys’
and burden: ‘Now may we syngyn as it is / Quod puer natus est
nobis’
Number 5582-1
5. a roll, number 13
There is no rose of such virtueA song of the Virgin Mary the Rose — three 6-line stanzas (aabccb) with
Latin caudae and burden: ‘Ther is no rose of swych vertu / As is the rose that
bare ihesu’
Number 608-3
6. no. 3
As I lay upon a nightA carol of the Annunciation — five quatrains (aaab) including refrain,
‘Redemptoris mater’ plus burden (bb): ‘Now syng we all in
fere / Alma redemptoris mater’
Number 4317-2
7. a roll, item 7
Our king went forth to NormandyThe Agincourt Carol — six 5-line stanzas (aaaab) including refrain:
‘Deo gracias’, and burden (cc): ‘Deo gracias Anglia /
Redde pro victoria’
Number 4235-1
8. a roll, item 11
Of this martyr make we mendA song for St. Stephen’s Day — three macaronic quatrains (abab) and
burden (bb): ‘Eya martir stephane / Prey for vs we prey to
þe’
Number 2482-2
9. no. 2 (on a roll)
In Bethlehem this bird
of lifeA Christmas carol — five 6-line stanzas (aaabab) and burden:
‘Nowel nowel nowel / To vs is born owr god emanuel’
Number 3738-1
10. (a roll), item 8
Now God almighty down hath sentA Christmas carol — three monorhyming quatrains plus 7-line burden
(aabbccb, of which apparently only last five lines repeated after the quatrains):
‘Now make we merthe al & sum / ffor cristemesse now is i-com / þat hath
no pere / Syng we alle in fere / Now ioye & blysse / þei xul not mysse /
þat makyth good chere’
Number 149-2
11. roll, no. 5
A principle point of charityBe merry in the Nativity, a carol — four quatrains including refrain
(aabb): ‘Be mery, be mery, I pray þu euerychon’
Number 202-2
12. a roll, no. 9
Abide I hope it be the bestThink before you act — five 2-line stanzas and 4-line burden:
‘Abyde Y hope hit be the beste [repeated twice] / Sith hasty man lakked neuer
woo’
Number 4-3