Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

Found Records:

London, Westminster School 3 [olim Westminster School 10.top.17]

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)

XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1986

and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013)

XMichael Benskin, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos, and Keith Williamson. An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. = ‘eLALME’. Edinburgh, 2013. [http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html]

LP 763; Grid 514 309 (Soke of Peterborough: Hand A, ff. 1-180); LP 927; Grid 521 328 (Lincs: Hand C, ff. 205-231v).

3. ff. 226v-227 All perishes and passes that we with eye see

First lyric inserted in Rolle’s Ego Dormio — 8 or 10 irregular alliterative lines

4. ff. 228v-229v My king the water greet / and the blood he sweat

‘Meditacio de passione’ in the treatise, Ego dormio — 41 rhyming lines in various stanzaic patterns

6. ff. 230-231 My song is in singing / My life is in longing

‘Cantus Amoris,’ rhyming lines in the treatise, Ego dormio — 93 lines in varying meters and stanzaic patterns including long-line couplets with or without medial rhyme, monorhyming 3-6-line stanzas, and a six-line stanza aabccb