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Manchester, John Rylands Library Lat. 395

Forget not the poor, a macaronic introduction to 583 — two couplets

On the duty of Almsgiving — seven quatrains

Verses reminding reader to remember the Pains of Purgatory — six stanzas of four monorhyming lines plus monorhyming refrain of increasing length, each ending ‘Thou schalt aby / This worlde defygh’ and burden: ‘Peas I hier a voyce saith man thou shalt dye / Remembre the paynes of purgatorie’

A lament of the Virgin Mary over her Son — four 9-line stanzas (aaaabbbcc) with refrain ‘Who can not wepe come lerne of me’ and a 4-line burden: ‘Sodenly afraide / Half wakyng half slepyng / And gretly dismayde / A wooman sate weepyng’

Stanza eleven of 2461 occuring separately