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The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
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Found Records:
Boke of Hawking, Hunting, and Blasing of Arms, [St Albans, 1486]
1.   Arise early / Serve god devoutly
Precepts in -ly; the texts show much variation — 16 lines in most witnesses, monorhyming
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 560-17
2.   Far from thy kin cast thee
A moral saw — four monorhyming lines
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 1258-3
3.   He that hight him with his kin
Examples of foolish behaviour — three couplets
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 1864-3
4.   The first year he must learn to feed
Raising a greyhound — 7 couplets from the Boke of St. Albans
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 5279-1
5.   There be four things full hard for to know
‘Cordiale quatuor novissimorum’ — six lines introducing prose
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 5557-2
6.   Thy greyhound must be headed like a snake
The qualities of a good greyhound — varying numbers of couplets or couplets and triplets
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 5938-3
7.   Two women in one house
Combinations for discord: a saw — two couplets
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 6095-4
8.   Wheresoever ye fare by frith or by fell
Juliana Berners: Book of Hunting
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 6507-3
9.   Who that buildeth his house all of sallows
Gnomic verses — four monorhyming lines
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 6567-4
10.   Who that maketh in Christmas a dog to his larder
Proverbial moral advice — two couplets
Printed Book: STC3308 Witness 6573-4