The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:London, Lambeth Palace Library 853
Number 5059-3
Number 2461-7
Number 2464-2
Number 2940-13
Number 2924-1
Number 1691-3
Number 1685-1
Number 2869-15
Number 6654-6
Number 6670-10
Number 6369-11
Number 2633-1
Number 3334-2
Number 1229-2
Number 2300-5
Number 5577-4
Number 604-3
Number 2453-3
Number 923-4
19. pp. 66-73
By a forest as I gan walk‘Merci Passith Riȝtwisnes’, a dialogue between a sinner and
Mercy — twenty 8-line stanzas
Number 667-4
Number 5707-7
21. pp. 81-88
This is Gods own complaintThe Complaint of God — eleven 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with
refrain, ‘Whi art þou to þi frend vnkinde’
Number 3275-2
Number 1098-3
23. pp. 102-112
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 1473-2
Number 888-1
Number 2084-6
Number 3588-21
Number 4995-2
Number 6376-3
Number 5964.5-1
Number 2369-2
Number 4810-9
32. p. 185
Serve thy God trulyPrecepts in -ly — usually two quatrains, but sometimes in expanded
versions
Number 3112-2
Number 4312-10
Number 2551-4