The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Oxford, Christ Church 152
Number 1652-1
Number 6414-12
Number 6415-11
Number 6530-11
Number 6427-11
Number 6537-11
Number 6307-9
Number 724-11
Number 5238-8
Number 145-9
Number 3090-7
Number 1242-11
12. ff. 72-82
v Experience though none auctoriteeGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Prologue of the Canterbury
Tales — 856 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 2618-11
13. ff. 83-88
In the old days of King ArthurGeoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath’s Tale of the Canterbury
Tales — 408 lines in couplets, with some versions including additional
lines.
Number 5802-11
Number 6536-11
Number 5756-10
Number 3255-11
Number 4860-11
Number 5573-11
Number 5801-4
Number 5599-10
Number 4314-8
Number 3251-10
Number 2502-10
Number 120-11
Number 6206-11
Number 3970-12
Number 5601-12
Number 6401-10
Number 3097-11
30. ff. 135-138
Listen lords in good ententGeoffrey Chaucer, the Sir Thopas in the Canterbury Tales —
207 lines in 6-line, tail-rhyme stanzas.
Number 3700-10
Number 6295-7
Number 2316-8
Number 2033-6
Number 142-9
Number 4870-1
36. ff. 173
v-174
Sir Nuns Priest our Host said anonGeoffrey Chaucer, the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Epilogue’ of the
Canterbury Tales found in nine manuscripts and three pre-1500 printed
editions — 16 lines in couplets, possibly canceled and reworked for the
Monk’s Prologue
Number 6711-9
Number 6390-10
Number 5617-8
Number 2476-9
Number 4315-11
Number 3929-10
Number 2587-11
Number 6185-3
Number 6535-9
Number 745-7
Number 5024-7
Number 725-10
Number 681-1
Number 6603-1
50. ff. 229-231
Whoso desireth to get and conquerThomas Hoccleve, A miracle of the Virgin Mary: How Our Lady’s Psalter was
first found — eighteen stanzas rhyme royal
Number 5405-10
Number 5729.4-10
Number 6296-8
Number 6753-8
Number 941-7
Number 4420-2
56. ff. 277-291
v Problems of old likeness and figuresJohn Lydgate, ‘The Chorle and the Birde’ — fifty-four stanzas
rhyme royal including 2-stanza envoy, plus one 8-line ‘Verba translatoris’
(ababbcbc)
Number 6276-6