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London, British Library Harley 2253

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 9620; Grid 349 258 (Herefords).

The Harrowing of Hell — in couplets

Debate between the Body and the Soul — twenty-seven four-line stanzas, the first with medial rhyme

Song of the Battle of Lewes — eight 7-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Richard þah þou be euer trichard / tricchen shalt þou neuermore’

‘Erthe upon Erthe’ (A version)

On the Execution of Sir Simon Fraser — 233 lines in 8-line stanzas (aaaabccb)

On the follies of fashion — five 7-line stanzas

Man must fight Three Foes — seven 11-line stanzas (ababababcbc)

Annot and Iohon — five 10-line aliterative stanzas

Alysoun — four 8-line stanzas (aaabcccb, ababbbbc) with refrain, ‘An hendi hap ichabbe yhent / ichot from heuene it is me sent / from alle wymmen mi loue is lent / & lyht on Alysoun’

Love lyrics begging, Lady have ruth on me — four l0-line stanzas (aabaabbaab)

The Song of the Husbandman — six 12-line alliterative stanzas (ababababcdcd)

Life of St. Marina — in couplets, ending with a six-line stanza, aabccb

‘The Poet’s Repentance’, expressing repentance for speaking ill of women in song — six 12-line alliterative stanzas (ababababcdcd)

Seven 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeffe)

The Meeting in the Wood — 48 alliterative lines in 12-line stanzas

A Lover’s Torments — fifty-five lines in 6-line stanzas, reconstructed as eight 6-line stanzas with 5-line refrain

Five stanzas (aabccbddbeebffgggf)

The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard — five 12-line stanzas (aabaabccbccb)

Lenten is come with love to town — three 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)

On Women: a Defence and a Warning — four 12-line stanzas

A prayer of penitence by an old man — 108 lines in alternating 12- and 5-line stanzas

The loveliest lady in the land — ten 8-line stanzas (aaabcccb) and 4-line burden: ‘Blow northerne wynd / sent þou me my suetyng / blow norþerne wynd / blou blou blou’.

An Elegy on the Death of Edward I — in 8-line stanzas

The Song about the Flemish Insurrection — 136 lines in 8-line stanzas (aaabcccb)

A hymn based on the Iesu dulcis memoria — fifteen monorhyming quatrains

A prayer to Jesus — four 6-line stanzas (aabccb), with three extra lines prefacing stanza 1

A Winter Song: All things must die — three 5-line stanzas (aaabb)

A Spring song of love to Jesus — five l0-line stanzas (ababccbddb)

A macaronic Latin, French, and English (2 lines) lyric to his Parisian mistress — five quatrains

Iesu dulcis memoria

‘Stabat iuxta Christi crucem’

A Meditation on the Passion — five 10-line stanzas (ababccdeed)

A song of the Passion — six 10-line stanzas

An autumn song in praise of the Virgin Mary — six 10-line stanzas

De Clerico et Puella — nine monorhyming quatrains

April, a love lyric — five four-line monorhyming stanzas

An orison to the Virgin Mary — five monorhyming quatrains

A song of the Five Joys of the Virgin Mary — ten 6-line stanzas

‘Le regret de Maximian’

An orison to the Virgin Mary — six monorhyming stanzas with medial rhyme, in English and French

The geste of King Horn — in couplets

A prayer of confession — seven 8-line stanzas

The Sayings of St. Bernard

Man in the Moon — five 8-line stanzas (abababab)

The Interpretation of Dreams — in couplets

Satire on the Retinues of the great — ten long alliterative monorhyming quatrains

The Proverbs of Hendyng

‘La countesse de Donbar demanda a Thomas de Essedoune quant la guere descoce prendreit fyn e yl la repoundy e dit’ — eighteen alliterative lines

A song of the love of Christ — five 6-line stanzas with 2-line refrain after each, ‘Ever and o night and day he haveth us in his thoghte / He nul nout leose þat he so deore boghte’

The Way of Woman’s Love — five 8-line stanzas (ababccdd) including 2-line refrain, ‘Ever and o for my leof ich am in grete thoghte / I thenche on hire þat I ne seo nout ofte’