The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:
1.
Yas sen that the eyne that workis my weilfare
4.
Ye been my father by creation
DIMEV 6815 Witnesses: 1
Song of the Virgin Mary to the Christ Child—five quatrains including refrain,
‘My owyn dyre sone lullay’, and burden: ‘Lullay my fader lullay my
brother / Myn owyn dyre sone lullay‘.
16.
Ye maidens of Englands now may ye mourn [Ye maydens of Englands nowe may ye
morne]
17.
Ye masters that of physic ken [Ȝe mastrys þat off phisik canne]See Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson D.251 (SC 13059) copy of
5395
18.
Ye masters that use blood-letting [Ȝe maistres þat vse blode lating]Introductory couplets prefaced to some texts of
5393
21.
Ye men that wisdom will learn
DIMEV 6829 Witnesses: 1
Prognostics for the year according to the day on which New Year falls —
174 lines in couplets, including a Prologue of sixteen lines and sections for each day
of the week.
23.
Ye popeholy priests full of presumption [Ye popeholy priests full of
presumcion]Formerly 4254.5; shorter version of
6831 focussing on clerical excess of dress rather than
gallants’
26.
Ye shall eat
DIMEV 6833 Witnesses: 1
A fragmentary carol of seven 3-line stanzas (aab) and burden: ‘[ ] wasche
ȝe & goo to met in honest’
27.
Ye shall turnen to God [ȝe suln turnen to God]Formerly 4256.5; introductory line to
4446
29.
Ye that are commons obey your king and lord
DIMEV 6835 Witnesses: 1
Advice to the several Estates, an extract (lines 1261-1323) from Alexander Barclay’s dedication to his Life of St. George (1515) — ten stanzas rhyme royal
32.
Ye that been set most highest in dignity [Ye that ben sette most highest in
dignyte]See Fakes print (
Hore beate marie virginis ad vsum insignis ac preclare ecclesie Saru[m] cu[m] figuris passionis
mysteriu[m] representa[n]tibus recenter additis. Richard Fakes, [Parisius: Per J. bignon pro R.
fakes Lodoii [sic] librario, [1521?]] ) of
4105.
36.
Ye that goth by the way [ȝe þat goȝt bi þe weye]
39.
Ye that passen by the way
DIMEV 6843 Witnesses: 2
O vos omnes qui transitis per viam — four long lines translating
Lamentations 1.12
40.
Ye that put your trust and confidence
43.
Ye that this ballad read shallConcluding couplet to
Isle of Ladies: see
6305
47.
Ye will not from sin refrain [Ye wil not frome synne refrayne]
50.
Ye wring my hand so sore
DIMEV 6851 Witnesses: 1
An amorous encounter — six 8-line stanzas and burden: ‘Bewar my
lytyl fynger / syr I yow desyre / bewar my lytyl fynger / bewar my lytyl fynger / bewar
my lytyl fynger / syr I yow desyre / bewar my lytyl fynger / syr I yow
desyre’
53.
Yet… / I am
DIMEV 6854 Witnesses: 1
Beginning lines of a song, possibly 2-line burden and a 4-line stanza —
fragments of six lines
55.
Yet is God a courteous lord
DIMEV 6856 Witnesses: 3
Moralizing verses on the Earthquake of 1382 — eleven 8-line stanzas
(ababbcbc) with refrain element, ‘…warning to be ware’
59.
Yet stand awhile and think no longSee Stanza 10 beginning some copies of
1771
64.
Yif [Ȝif]See under ‘If’
66.
Ynguar and Vbbe [Ynguar and Vbbe]
68.
Yore was a land
DIMEV 6867 Witnesses: 1
One couplet in a collection of Latin sermons
76.
Young men I rede that ye beware
DIMEV 6874 Witnesses: 1
Beware of a shrewish wife — three quatrains and burden: ‘In soro
& car he led hys lyfe / Þat haue a schrow ontyll is wyfe’
77.
Young men I warn you everyone
DIMEV 6875 Witnesses: 1
Verses against marrying elderly women — five quatrains with refrain,
‘I dar not seyȝ quan che seȝt pes’ and burden: ‘How hey it
is not les / I dar not seyȝ quan che seȝt pes’
80.
Your books [your bokys]Second line of 8-line fragment,
3513.1
81.
Your company [Youer company]
85.
Your light grievance shall not me constrain
DIMEV 6881 Witnesses: 1
A song to his uncertain mistress — four monorhyming quatrains (same rhyme
throughout) with refrain and burden: ‘How shold Y plece a creature
uncerteyne’
86.
Your mind considered and your good intentCoplande’s preface to William Nevill’s
Castell of Pleasure
in the de Worde edition of
c. 1530, in the form of a dialogue between Coplande
and Neville: see
Neville, William,
The castell of pleasure The conueyaunce of a dreme how Desyre went to
the castell of pleasure, wherin was the gardyn of affeccyon inhabyted by Beaute to whome he
amerously expressed his loue vpon ye whiche supplycacyon rose grete stryfe dysputacyon, and
argument betwene Pyte and Dysdayne, [Ed.? (R. Copland) Enprynted at London: In the Fletestrete
at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de worde, [1530?]] version of
6083.
88.
Your pye e
DIMEV 6883 Witnesses: 1
Fragment of a song with musical notation — fragment
89.
Your servant madam
DIMEV 6884 Witnesses: 1
A dialogue of the night visit — ten irregular stanzas with burden:
‘Go fro my vindow go…’
90.
Your sweet love with bloody nails / Which fedeth more lice than quails [Youre swete
loue wyth blody naylys / Whyche fedyth mo lyce than quaylis…]Couplet introduction to
3902
91.
Your ugly token
DIMEV 6885 Witnesses: 2
John Skelton: Vppon a deedmans hede (Skelton)
92.
Youth lust reaches or manhood
DIMEV 6886 Witnesses: 1
An Exhortation to God’s Service — twelve monorhyming quatrains and
burden: ‘When all ys don and all ys sayd / God must be known seruyd &
obeid’
95.
Yry yry standard
DIMEV 6889 Witnesses: 2
A scrap on the Battle of the Standard, ca. A.D. 1138
96.
Y-turnd into ioye is al my wo