The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.19 (599)
Number 6065.5-1
1. ff. 1-1
v Tronos celorum continensMumming of the Seven Philosophers (a Christmas pageant) — twelve stanzas
rhyme royal
Number 3830-1
Number 2669-1
Number 4103-1
Number 344-1
Number 3953-1
6. ff. 4-6
v O Lady mine to whomAn epistle to his mistress, including a Dialogue between the Lover and Dame
Nature—32 stanzas rhyme royal plus Envoy of 1 stanza rhyme royal
Number 6743-1
Number 4166-1
Number 1237-1
Number 2523-1
Number 4420-5
11. ff. 9
ra-11
vb Problems of old likeness and figuresJohn Lydgate, ‘The Chorle and the Birde’ — fifty-four stanzas
rhyme royal including 2-stanza envoy, plus one 8-line ‘Verba translatoris’
(ababbcbc)
Number 6701-2
Number 5373-12
Number 3442-1
Number 5116-1
Number 718-1
Number 1544-9
Number 4168-4
Number 2575-1
19. ff. 55-65
v In September at the falling of the leaf’The Boke called Assemble de Damys’, ascribed to Chaucer —
755 lines in rhyme royal stanzas, including eleven introductory stanzas and three
concluding stanzas
Number 5516-1
Number 6393-1
Number 1761-3
Number 965-2
Number 4398-1
Number 177-9
Number 4375-5
Number 3713-1
Number 3623-1
Number 5990-1
Number 4225-1
Number 3733-1
Number 4032-1
32. ff. 157
v-159
O prudent folks taketh heedJohn Lydgate, ‘Bycorne and Chychevache’ — nineteen stanzas
rhyme royal with occasional prose to introduce speakers
Number 2053-1
Number 453-1
Number 2624-1
Number 3027-1
Number 3989-1
37. ff. 161
ra-161
va O merciful and O merciableA 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
Number 4997-1
Number 3937-4
Number 6799-1
Number 6367-1
41. ff. 170
v-202
When John Bochas considered had and soughtA 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
Number 6295-18
Number 2316-19
Number 5516-2
Number 2169-1
45. ff. 205-205
v I have a lady whereso she be‘The Discryuyng of a fayre lady‘: a mock courtly panegyric of
traditional charms — seven stanzas rhyme royal
Number 6798-3
Number 4006-1
Number 4169-6
Number 3184-1
Number 3466-1
Number 1910-1
Number 81-1
52. ff. 209-209
v A knight that is hardy as a lionJohn 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
Number 5530-3
Number 1919-2
Number 4798-11
55. f. 210
v2 See and hear and hold stillA tag in the
Fasciculus Morum, and as comment of Third Cock in a story
in the
Gesta Romanorum; see
Whiting (1968)
XWhiting, Bartlett Jere.
Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings
Mainly before 1500.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1968
, H.264
Number 1098-2
56. ff. 211-213
Daughter if thou wilt been a wife and wisely to work‘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
Number 6756-1
Number 2522-1
Number 112-4