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The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
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Found Records:
London, Lambeth Palace Library 260
Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 283 (NME).
Number 1282-6
1.   f. 1ra-1va   Father and Son and Holy Ghost / That onefold God is aye steadfast
Prologue of the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 1202-8
2.   f. 1va-1vb   Ere the fulfilling of time was come / Satan had all the folk I-nome
Ratio quare presens opus incipiat dominicam primam aduentus domini, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4689-10
3.   ff. 1vb-2va   Saint Mark begins his gospel
Gospel for the First Sunday in Advent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6795-10
4.   ff. 2vb-3rb   Worlds wealth girt Mary weed
Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6047-8
5.   ff. 3rb-4rb   Today Saint Luke tells us
Gospel for Second Sunday in Advent, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 11-13
6.   ff. 4rb-4vb   A black monk in an abbey / As fermerer as I heard say
The monk who returned from death, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4720-11
7.   ff. 4vb-5rb   Saint Matthew the evangelist / Says that Saint John the Baptist
Gospel for the Third Sunday in Advent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5353-4
8.   ff. 5rb-6rb   The king Herod with mickle unright
Herod and John the Baptist: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5671-3
9.   ff. 6rb-7rb   This day Saint John the gospeller
Gospel for Fourth Sunday in Advent, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2760-9
10.   ff. 7rb-7vb   It was a man as I heard say / That to Saint James took the way
The Pilgrim to St. James, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6771-4
11.   ff. 7vb-8vb   Woe and wandreth walks wide
Gospel, ‘In nocte natalis domini’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5160-9
12.   ff. 8vb-9rb   That may ye by Saint Martin see
Saints Martin, Anthony, and Machary: exempla in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5345-6
13.   ff. 9rb-9vb   The Jews made every year
Gospel for the Sunday after the Nativity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 476-10
14.   ff. 9vb-11vb   An archbishop beyond the sea / was woning in a faire city
The Archbishop and the Nun, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 5511-8
15.   ff. 11vb-13ra   The twelfth day from Christs birth
Gospel for Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5347-8
16.   ff. 13ra-13vb   The Jews woned in sere country
Gospel, ‘Domnica infra Octavas Epiphanie’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6318-10
17.   ff. 13vb-14rb   When holy kirk bigan newly
St. John and the Boy, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4631-8
18.   ff. 14va-15ra   Saint John tells us a tale
Gospel for the Second Sunday after Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle, with a short Narratio, The Mother of St. Thomas of Canterbury
Number 4714-8
19.   f. 15ra   Saint Matthew says in our gospel
Gospel for the Second Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5223-10
20.   f. 15va-15vb   The Book of Kings tells us
Giezi and Naaman: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle — couplets
Number 4723-8
21.   ff. 15vb-16rb   Saint Matthew the evangelist / Tells us today how Christ
Gospel for the Third Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 64-10
22.   ff. 16rb-16vb   A holy man beyond the sea / Was bishop of a great city
The Knight who did penance among worms, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5982-8
23.   ff. 16vb-17rb   To his disciples said Jesus / As Saint Matthew here tells us
Gospel, ‘Dominica iiij. post Octave Epiphanie’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 528-10
24.   f. 17rb   And of this seed that Satan sawes / A good tale
The Devil as Physician, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 2516-9
25.   ff. 17va-18rb   In holy book find we / That this day has names three
Gospel for the Feast of the Purification, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 169-10
26.   ff. 18rb-18vb   A tale of this feast have I heard / How it once of a widow fared
The Widow’s Candle, in the Northern Homily Cycle (Purification) — in couplets
Number 5161-9
27.   ff. 18vb-20vb   That may ye see by a lady
The Abbess who went with Child: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 548-11
28.   ff. 20vb-21ra   And we find written of an hermit / That lived long without wit
The Hermit who returned to the World, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 2561-9
29.   ff. 21ra-21va   In our gospel Saint Luke says us / That mickle folk come to Jesu
Gospel for Sexagesima Sunday, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 150-7
30.   ff. 21va-22rb   A rich man by old days / Thought for to leave this worlds plays
The Monk Mawryne, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4673-9
31.   ff. 22rb-22vb   Saint Luke tells that Christ himself
Gospel for Quinquagesima Sunday in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6166-10
32.   ff. 22vb-23ra   We find written of Saint Bernard
Pater noster for St. Bernard’s palfrey, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3051-7
33.   ff. 23ra-23vb   Lenten ought we to love in lede / and worship it…
Gospel for the First Sunday in Lent, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 62-6
34.   ff. 23vb-27va   A hende knight hight Placidas / But a heathen man
Legend of St. Eustace, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4715-7
35.   ff. 27va-28rb   Saint Matthew says in our gospel
Gospel for the Second Sunday in Lent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6037-7
36.   ff. 28rb-29ra   To wilderness yode a young man
How a Hermit put another into Wanhope, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3391-7
37.   ff. 29ra-29va   Man which Adam sin made thrall / Who made us free thou heardest tell
Gospel for the Feast of the Annunciation, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2758-8
38.   ff. 29va-30ra   It was a knight beyond the sea / That rich man was wont to be
The Virgin Mary comes to the Devil instead of his Victim, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4670-6
39.   ff. 30ra-30va   Saint Luke says that a man dumb was
Gospel for the Third Sunday in Lent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5159-8
40.   f. 30va-30vb   That may we see by Saint Bede
St. Bede and the Birds: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4636-2
41.   ff. 30vb-31va   Saint John the good gospeller
Gospel for the Fourth Sunday in Lent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2761-11
42.   ff. 31va-33rb   It was a rich man o land / Full far beyond the sea woning
Piers Toller, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 487-8
43.   ff. 33ra-33va   An hermit woned in a wastern
The Hermit and the Thieves, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 2560-5
44.   ff. 33va-34ra   In our gospel Matthew says us
Gospel for Palm Sunday, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 65-9
45.   ff. 34ra-34va   A holy man stood on a day
A Man in the Devil’s leash, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4692-6
46.   ff. 34va-35va   Saint Mark in our gospel shows
Gospel for Easter Sunday in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4672-8
47.   ff. 35va-36ra   Saint Luke tells how disciples two
Gospel for Easter Monday in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 489-6
48.   f. 36ra-36rb   An holy man at preaching sat / And thought that sermon wonder sweet
The Devil in Church, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4643-5
49.   ff. 36rb-36vb   Saint John the Gospeller us shows
Gospel for First Sunday after Easter in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4640-7
50.   ff. 36vb-37rb   Saint John the gospeller says us / That to his disciples said
Gospel for the Second Sunday after Easter in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5183-7
51.   f. 36vb   That was well on Saint Edmund seen
St. Edmund and the Devil; Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2763-8
52.   ff. 37rb-37vb   It was an Earl of much might / Beyond the sea Sir Theobald he hight
Count Theobald, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4628-6
53.   ff. 37vb-38ra   Saint John in our Gospel shows
Gospel for the Third Sunday after Easter in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 66-10
54.   ff. 38ra-38va   A holy monk had great yearning / In his life to see tokening
The Monk who wished to see the least Joy in Paradise, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4627-7
55.   f. 38va-38vb   Saint John in our gospel says us
Gospel for the Fourth Sunday after Easter in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4638-9
56.   ff. 38vb-39rb   Saint John the Gospeller says us / that til his disciples said
Gospel for the Fifth Sunday after Easter in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6284-8
57.   ff. 39rb-39va   When Christ was risen from dead to life
Gospel, ‘In die Ascensionis’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 23-10
58.   f. 39va-39vb   A Christian priest was called Carpus
The story of Carpus in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 5955-6
59.   ff. 39vb-40rb   Til his disciples said Jesu Christ / as says Saint John
Gospel, ‘Dominica infra Octave Ascensionis’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5675-11
60.   ff. 40rb-40va   This day Whitsunday is called
Gospel for Whitsunday, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 488-13
61.   f. 40va-40vb   An Hermit woned in the wilderness / That proved his disciple buxomness
The Obedient Servant, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4639-9
62.   ff. 40vb-41ra   Saint John the Gospeller says us / That til his disciples said
Gospel for Whit Monday in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5598-4
63.   f. 41ra   There was a woman of ill fame
Story of Thais in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3716-8
64.   f. 41rb   Now are the feasts made of Christ
Gospel for Trinity Sunday in the Northern Homily Cycle (including the story of the Baptism of Jesus — see 5179 — which also occurs separately); eight 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc, with …‘I take my leue’ refrain
Number 5179-1
65.   f. 41rb   That time that Saint John Baptist
Story of the Baptism of Christ, from the Northern Homily Cycle (Homily for Trinity Sunday)
Number 5839-8
66.   ff. 41va-41vb   Thou rich man that sits on dais
Gospel for First Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5956-8
67.   ff. 41vb-42rb   Til his disciples said Jesus / As Luke the gospeller tells us
Gospel for Second Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2465-10
68.   f. 42rb1   In a wilderness an hermit found
The Hermit and the Angel, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6048-8
69.   f. 42rb2   Today Saint Luke the gospeller
Gospel for Third Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 791-9
70.   ff. 42vb-43ra   Before time that good angel wrought / But God him self
The Fall of the Angels and the Creation of Man, in Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 1797-8
71.   f. 43ra-43rb   Harkeneth what Saint Luke will say / In our gospel of today
Gospel for Fourth Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6091-11
72.   ff. 43rb-43va   Two monks were woning in a cell
The Monk who was harsh in judging, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4677-8
73.   ff. 43va-44ra   Saint Luke the good gospeller
Gospel for Fifth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5907-8
74.   f. 44ra-44rb   Threefold folk in holy kirk
Gospel for Sixth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4696-9
75.   ff. 44rb-44vb   Saint Mark the gospeller says us
Gospel for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4710-4
76.   ff. 44vb-45ra   Saint Matthew in our gospel says us
Gospel for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4669-6
77.   f. 45ra-45rb   Saint Luke says in this gospel
Gospel for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2786-8
78.   ff. 45rb-46ra   Jerusalem in English is / As mickle to say as sight of peace
Gospel for Tenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 1826-8
79.   f. 46ra-46rb   He is be-gabbed loathly / That lets of other men hethely
Gospel for Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2491-12
80.   ff. 46rb-47rb   In England by old days / Were kings seven as gest us shows
King Oswald and the Hermit, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4695-8
81.   ff. 47rb-48ra   Saint Mark speaks in our gospel
Gospel for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5954-8
82.   ff. 48ra-49ra   Til his disciples said Christ
Gospel for Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 10-12
83.   ff. 49ra-51va   A bishop woned beyond the sea / In Sicily the rich city
The Legend of Theophilus in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4679-7
84.   ff. 51va-52vb   Saint Luke the gospeller will say
Gospel for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6113-7
85.   ff. 52vb-53va   Unto his disciples said Christ
Gospel for Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2764-9
86.   ff. 53va-54rb   It was once a gardener / That to God was both lief and dear
The Thrifty Gardener, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 1796-7
87.   ff. 54rb-54va   Harkeneth what Saint Luke will say / In our gospel of this day
Gospel for Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, in Northern Homily Cycle
Number 1843-6
88.   ff. 54va-55vb   He sayeth it was once a clerk / That left the fiend and all his work
Dying Monk sees Dragon, Narratio in Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2473-7
89.   ff. 55vb-56vb   In Antioch beyond the sea
Pelagia: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4711-8
90.   ff. 57ra-57va   Saint Matthew in our gospel shows
Gospel for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2765-9
91.   ff. 57va-58ra   It was once a hende knight / That slew another knight in fight
The Knight who forgave the Slayer of his Father, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2563-8
92.   ff. 58ra-58vb   In our gospel says Matthew / That Christs deeds til us will show
Gospel for Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 479-10
93.   ff. 58vb-59va   An Emperor was once in Rome / That was righteous in his doom
Gregory and Trajan’s soul, followed by the story of Alexander and the imprisoned Jews, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 5674-8
94.   ff. 59va-60rb   This day Saint Matthew tells us
Gospel for Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4606-4
95.   ff. 60rb-60va   Saint Gregory a tale us tells
Gregory’s Aunts: a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4637-6
96.   ff. 60va-61ra   Saint John the good gospeller / Tells us as I said you here
Gospel for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4548-6
97.   f. 61ra-61rb   Saint Basil telleth soothfastly
The Despised Nun: a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4721-7
98.   ff. 61rb-61va   Saint Matthew the Evangelist / telleth us that Jesu Christ
Gospel for the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 125-8
99.   f. 61va-61vb   A monk was in Religion / And to backbiting was ever boune
The Backbiting Monk, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 5673-7
100.   ff. 61vb-62ra   This day Saint Matthew tells us
Gospel for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3406-8
101.   f. 62ra-62rb   Many winter witterly / Ere Christ were born of our Lady
Story of Queen Esther, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4642-5
102.   f. 63ra   Saint John the gospeller / Tells as I shall you lere
Gospel for the Twenty-fourth (according to some MSS the Twenty-fifth) Sunday after Trinity in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3615-1
103.   f. 66vb   My hope maiden I ask and crave
Six couplets spoken by Anima, the Virgin Mary, Filius, Pater, translating six Latin lines with medial rime, ‘O spes in morte’ etc.
Number 5398-71
104.   ff. 101-136vb   The might of the Father Almighty
The Pricke of Conscience, sometimes attributed to Richard [Rolle of] Hampole