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San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 744 [olim Ashburnham 133; olim Gollancz]

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) 1.92 (London associations).

Precepts in -ly — four short lines

Verses on the qualities that will lead one to heaven, preceding a copy of Isidore’s Consilia in English prose — four monorhyming phrases

Erthe upon Erthe

Cur mundus militat… — twenty couplets

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Inuocacio ad patrem’ — twenty stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Inuocacio ad ihesum’ — ten stanzas rhyme royal

Hoccleve’s ‘Inuocacio ad spiritum sanctum’ — ten stanzas rhyme royal

Inuocacio ad beatam Virginem

Thomas Hoccleve, An orison to the Virgin Mary — twenty stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, A miracle of the Virgin Mary: How Our Lady’s Psalter was first found — eighteen stanzas rhyme royal

Lespistre de Cupide

Thomas Hoccleve, Balade to King Henry V — five stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, Appeal to Lady Money — a roundel, twenty-four lines

Thomas Hoccleve, Lady Money’s scornful answer to his petition — a roundel in twenty-four lines

Thomas Hoccleve, Humourous Praise of his Lady — a roundel, twenty-four lines

Couplet closing to three roundels addressed by Hoccleve to money (6204, 2034, 4193), introducing next piece (4879)

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Ars Sciendi Mori’ — 134 stanzas rhyme royal