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Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.19 (599)

Mumming of the Seven Philosophers (a Christmas pageant) — twelve stanzas rhyme royal

Poem to his mistress — eight stanzas rhyme royal

‘A Balade declaring that wemens chastite Doeth moche excel all treasure worldly’

A plea to lovers for sympathy — five stanzas rhyme royal

A lover’s plea — one quatrain and three 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘pyte comfort your daungernesse’

An epistle to his mistress, including a Dialogue between the Lover and Dame Nature—32 stanzas rhyme royal plus Envoy of 1 stanza rhyme royal

The penitent lover to his beloved — three stanzas rhyme royal with refrain, Anima mea turbata est or Anima mea liquefacta est

Lover’s praises of his beloved, introducing the song, ‘Ma beele amour’ at end — one stanza of eight lines (ababbcbc) and one of seven (ababbcb)

‘A Woman’s Reply to Her Lover’ — thirteen stanzas rhyme royal

The lover pleading that some men are true in love — four eight-line stanzas plus one short-line stanza rhyme royal

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, Isopes Fabules — seven fables, in rhyme royal

Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules — 98 stanzas rhyme royal

Balade in praise of Chaucer — one stanza rhyme royal

The Tale of Guiscardo and Ghismonda — rhyme royal

George Ashby, A Prisoner’s Reflections — fifty stanzas rhyme royal including Prologue, text, Envoy and postscript

John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of old Philisoffres — 390 stanzas rhyme royal

Of the Four Complexions (beginning with Sanguineus) — four stanzas rhyme royal

’The Boke called Assemble de Damys’, ascribed to Chaucer — 755 lines in rhyme royal stanzas, including eleven introductory stanzas and three concluding stanzas

The transitoriness of worldly prosperity — two stanzas rhyme royal

The Assembly of Gods, perhaps by Lydgate — 301 stanzas rhyme royal

‘La Belle Dame sans Mercy’

‘The X Commaundments of love’ — fourteen stanzas rhyme royal including Envoy

‘The ix ladyes worthy’, a pseudo-Chaucerian poem — nine stanzas rhyme royal

Legend of Good Women

‘The Compleynt unto Pite’

Letter of a lover to his absent lady — five 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) plus one 7-line of shorter lines, ababcbc

A lover’s lament — one 7-line stanza (ababcbc) introduced by 3713 and serving as sixth stanza of same

The Craft of Lovers, a dialogue between Cupido and Diana — twenty-six stanzas rhyme royal

A balade on hypocritical women — four stanzas rhyme royal

A poem addressed to his heartless mistress — thirteen quatrains (abab)

John Lydgate, ‘Bycorne and Chychevache’ — nineteen stanzas rhyme royal with occasional prose to introduce speakers

A letter to his heart’s sovereign — five stanzas rhyme royal

The Lover’s Lament, a pseudo-Chaucerian virelai — five 8-line tail-rhyme stanzas

A Ballade in praise of Margaret, the daisy — seven stanzas rhyme royal

An epistle to his mistress, signed ‘Chaucer’ — ten stanzas rhyme royal

A lover pleading for mercy from his beloved, a pseudo-Chaucerian lyric, but apparently made up of scraps of other poems — thirteen stanzas rhyme royal including 3-stanza envoy

The Judgement of Paris — four stanzas rhyme royal

John Lydgate, ‘Testament’, in five sections—sections 1, 3, and 5 in 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc); sections 2 and 4 in rhyme royal

‘Prohemium’ to an extract from the Fall of Princes (1904)

A composite text on Adam, Samson and Dido, made up of portions of Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (1904) and Chaucer’s Monk’s Tale (6414) — in 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), rhyme royal, and two five-line stanzas, abbcc and abacc

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Monk’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales — 102 lines in rhyming couplets.

Geoffrey Chaucer, the Monk’s Tale of the Canterbury Tales — 776 lines in eight-line stanzas.

The transitoriness of worldly prosperity — two stanzas rhyme royal

‘The Discryuyng of a fayre lady‘: a mock courtly panegyric of traditional charms — seven stanzas rhyme royal

Four things that make a man fall from Reason, perhaps by Lydgate — one stanza rhyme royal

A scurrilous balade against his mistress — three stanzas rhyme royal.

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

Beware of deceitful women — six stanzas rhyme royal with refrain: ‘Bewar therfor the blynde etith many a flye’

Pilgrims’ Song — nine 8-line stanzas (aaabcccb)

Advice against extravagant living, ‘secundum Aristotilem’ — one quatrain (abab)

John Lydgate, eight stanzas expounding refrain: ‘None of all these I doo yow well assure / Off kyndely ryght may no while endure’ — eight stanzas rhyme royal

‘Prouerbis of Wysdom’ — 106 lines in couplets

Hold your tongue — three lines in one manuscript of the Fasciculus Morum

A tag in the Fasciculus Morum, and as comment of Third Cock in a story in the Gesta Romanorum; see Whiting (1968), H.264

‘How the Good Wiif tauȝte Hir Douȝtir’ — in stanzas of 5 long lines with internal rhyme, generally with a concluding phrase ‘My leef child’; sometimes instead set out as 4-line stanzas without this concluding phrase

The Courte of Love — 1422 lines in rhyme royal stanzas

Aesop’s fable of the wolf and the crane, translated by Lydgate — fourteen rhyme royal stanzas

Piers of Fulham’s ‘many praty conceytis in love vnder covert termes off fysshyng and ffowlyng’ — in couplets