The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:
4.
Call to me the rushes green [Colle to me the rysshys grene]
6.
Can I not sing but hoy [Can I not syng but hoy]
7.
Can tell where conscience is become [Can tell where Conscyens ys become]
8.
Can the fleur-de-lis [Can the flowr de lyce]
11.
Caput apri Refero / Resonens laudes domino
12.
Card lie down and wheel stand still [Card lye down and whele stond styll]
14.
Care not too much for any thing [Care not to myche for ony thynge]Lines 61-62 of London, British Library Harley 2252 copy of
712
17.
Catesby the cat and Lovel the dog [Catesby the cat and Lovel the dogge / Rule all
England under the hog]
21.
Cedir þu be noumbre whateuer þing þu couetiste to be
prouid…Mistranscription of ‘Gedir þu be noumbre…’, mistakenly
claimed as six lines of verse in York, York Minster Library XVI.E.32, f. 7 by N. R. Ker, and A. J. Piper, eds.
Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries.
4 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1969-92, 4.702.
30.
Charity is chased all about
DIMEV 971 Witnesses: 1
The absence of charity — two couplets in a Latin sermon by Friar Nicholas
Philipp
31.
Charity is no longer cheer [Charite is no lengor Cheere]
53.
Christ had rest at His need
DIMEV 992 Witnesses: 1
On Christ’s rewards for suffering, in a Latin sermon, de ascensione
domini — one couplet
56.
Christ honoured mote Thou be [Crist honoured mote þou be]
58.
Christ is wounded for our wickedness
DIMEV 996 Witnesses: 1
‘We buþ ful heled of oure siknesse’ in a Latin sermon
translating ‘Ipse vulneratus propter iniquitates nostras’ (Isaiah
53:5) — one couplet
63.
Christ mote us speed
DIMEV 1001 Witnesses: 1
Prayer for Christ’s blessing or aid — a single couplet inscribed on
a font
77.
Christ that died upon the rood
DIMEV 1015 Witnesses: 1
A political poem blaming magnates for the loss of Normandy — 118 lines in
3-line stanzas (aab)
78.
Christ that was crowned with caitifs unkind [Cryst þat was crowned with caytyfes
vnkynde]
82.
Christ that was of infinite might [Crist that was of infynyt myght]
87.
Christ was I-bore in Bethlehem [Crist was i-bore in bedlehem]
91.
Christo paremus cantica / In excelsis gloria
96.
Christs cross be my speed [Crystys crosse be my spede]One-couplet introduction to Aristotle’s ABC; see
6054
101.
Church going
DIMEV 1034 Witnesses: 1
Phrases describing profitable works, in a Latin sermon — four monorhyming
phrases
103.
Clangat tuba martir Thoma
112.
Come home again [Com home agayne / Come hom agayne / Min owine swet]Burden of a carol on Christ’s call to Mankind: see
3394
118.
Come my sweet come my flower
DIMEV 1049 Witnesses: 1
Verses incorporated in a sermon for the feast of the Assumption — two
couplets in Mirk’s Festial
119.
Come no more at our house
DIMEV 1050 Witnesses: 1
Song of which only a reference to its burden(?) or refrain(?) survives —
two lines
121.
Come over the burn Bessey [Come over the burne Besse]
122.
Come over the woods fair and green
DIMEV 1052 Witnesses: 1
An amorous dialogue with gathering flowers imagery — ten 8-line
Monk’s Tale stanzas with refrains, ‘for conforth ys non alone to be’
and ‘alone’
125.
Come to Bethlehem and ye shall see [Come to Bethleem and ye shal se / Puer natus
est hodie]
126.
Come wind come rain
DIMEV 1055 Witnesses: 1
Proverbial couplet translating ‘Ventus cum pluuia
&c.’
129.
Comfort and I thus went in hands twain [Comfort and y thus went in hondis
twayn]
133.
Commit thy body to the grave [Comitt thy body to the graue]
141.
Conceived man how may that by reason brought about
DIMEV 1067 Witnesses: 2
On the mystery of the Incarnation — five quatrains in long lines and
two-line burden: ‘Mervell nothyng joseph that mary be with child / She hath
conceyved vere god and man and yet she undefiled’
143.
Conditor alme syderum
151.
Convertimini ye commons [Conuertimini ye comons]
155.
Courteous Caton
DIMEV 1082 Witnesses: 1
On Cato, pagan yet Christian — five tail-rhyme stanzas of 6 short
lines
158.
Credo in deum
DIMEV 1084 Witnesses: 1
A statement of belief and assurance of the bliss that is its reward — ten
lines in a cross-rhymed quatrain (perhaps the burden?) and a tail-rhymed 6-line
stanza
161.
Criste qui lux es et dies / Noctis tenebras detegis
162.
Criste redemptor omnium / Ex patre patris vnice
165.
Cross was made all of red [Crosse was made all of red]
168.
Cuius contrarium verum est
169.
Cum sola sis spes hominum