The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.9.38 (1450)
Number 6636-1
1. ff. 18
v-20
v Whoso will a gardener beA Poem on Gardening, ‘Liber qui vocatur Anglice Mayster Jon
Gardener’ — 196 lines in couplets
Number 6542-2
2. ff. 21-22
Who carps of birds of great gentriesOn the fickleness of women — thirteen 8-line stanzas with refrain:
‘Pulle of her bellys & let her go flye’ or ‘Then plukkyd y of here
bellys & let here fly’
Number 2453-2
Number 5388-2
Number 924-5
5. ff. 24-25
By a forest side walking as I went‘A tretyse of Parce michi domine’, Allegory of the bird with
four feathers — 240 lines in 8-, l2-, up to 20-line stanzas, with this
refrain
Number 925-3
Number 5910-1
7. f. 26
v Through a town as I come ride‘Hyre & see and say not all’ — one twelve-line and seven
eight-line stanzas including refrain, ‘Hyre & se and sey not
all’
Number 359-3
8. ff. 27-27
v All righeousness doth now proceedJohn Lydgate, ‘Rammeshorne’ — seven 8-line stanzas including
refrain, ‘As ryȝth as a rams horne’ or ‘A resoun of the
Rammeshorne’
Number 3184-2
Number 6546-1
10. f. 39
v Who hath good can goodOn the need to use one’s good wisely — eight lines with alternating
rhyme, one rhyme being ‘good’ in various meanings
Number 6573-1
Number 6751-1
12. f. 47
With this beetle be he smittenAn English quatrain in a Latin story of the foolish father who gave away his
goods, sometimes found in Bromyard’s sermons
Number 6568-2
Number 3998
Number 416-1
Number 2533-13
Number 6724-1
17. ff. 63
v-64
With favor in her face far passing my ReasonA lament of the Virgin Mary over her Son — four 9-line stanzas
(aaaabbbcc) with refrain ‘Who can not wepe come lerne of me’ and a 4-line
burden: ‘Sodenly afraide / Half wakyng half slepyng / And gretly dismayde / A
wooman sate weepyng’
Number 5392-2
18. f. 69
v The Mass is of so high dignityAgainst swearing by the Mass — six quatrains (aaaa) and burden (bb):
‘Y concell yow both more and lasse / Beware of swerynge by the
masse’
Number 4954-1
Number 5384-1
20. f. 77
v The lover trueThe significance of colors — three 6-line tail-rhyme
stanzas
Number 6406-1
Number 6696-1
Number 4807-1
Number 2840-10
Number 1197-1
Number 2486-3
Number 359-4
27. f. 121
v All righeousness doth now proceedJohn Lydgate, ‘Rammeshorne’ — seven 8-line stanzas including
refrain, ‘As ryȝth as a rams horne’ or ‘A resoun of the
Rammeshorne’