The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, Lambeth Palace Library 306
Number 5731-31
Number 1550-3
2. f. 45
God be our guideOn the Kentish Insurrection of Robert of Redesdale (1450) — one 6-line
stanza
Number 2610-2
Number 2824-4
Number 3348-6
Number 2777-4
Number 6191-1
Number 4429-3
Number 1494-2
Number 1163-1
Number 4956-3
11. ff. 135-135
v Some be merry and some be sadCarol 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’.
Number 4886-1
Number 2949-1
Number 3613-1
Number 5167-1
Number 1451-1
Number 1075-10
Number 5707-6
18. ff. 145-147
This is Gods own complaintThe Complaint of God — eleven 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with
refrain, ‘Whi art þou to þi frend vnkinde’
Number 4312-9
Number 1909-4
Number 3848-1
Number 432-1
Number 6640-14
23. f. 203
Whoso will beware of purchasing‘Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to’, sometimes
attributed to Sir John Fortescue — ten or twelve couplets