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London, Lambeth Palace Library 306

Verses on the Kings of England (Lydgate)

On the Kentish Insurrection of Robert of Redesdale (1450) — one 6-line stanza

On the Death of the Duke of Suffolk (1450) — macaronic lines in 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), with refrain, ‘For Iac Napes soule, Placebo and Dirige’

Libeaus Desconus — mainly in 12-line stanzas (aabbccbddbeeb)

Story of the adulterous Falmouth Squire — 49 quatrains (abab)

The Trental of St. Gregory

‘The Receyvyng of Kyng Edward the IIIJth at Brystowe’ — one quatrain

‘Regina celi letare’ — two quatrains

‘Gaude Flore Virginali’ — seven 7-line stanzas

These Lettres XII shall save Mery Englond

Carol on the different kinds of women — six 6-line stanzas (aaabccb) including refrain, ‘Yet all be not so / For sum be lewde & sum be shrewed / Go shrew wher so euer ye go’, and burden (dd): ‘Women women love of women / Makeþ bare pursis wiþ sum men’.

Edwardus IV Dei gratia

A Greeting on New Years’ Morning — four stanzas rhyme royal and concluding couplet

To my Heart’s Joy — three 8-line stanzas and 4-line Envoy

Verses written to his Mistress, the flower of womanhood, a love epistle — six stanzas rhyme royal including Envoy

To my Lady dear — four 8-line stanzas and concluding couplet

Hors, Goose and Shepe

The Complaint of God — eleven 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with refrain, ‘Whi art þou to þi frend vnkinde’

William Lychefelde, ‘Complaint of God’ — sixty-eight 8-line stanzas (abababab)

‘The Stacions of Rome’ — in couplets

A salutation to the Virgin Mary — six stanzas rhyme royal

The Wright’s Chaste Wife — 672 lines in 6-line stanzas

‘Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to’, sometimes attributed to Sir John Fortescue — ten or twelve couplets