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Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 18.7.21

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 4041; Grid 568 290 (Norfolk).

One couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s saving work — one couplet translating ‘Sanati sumus’ (Is. 53.5) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

A fragment — eight lines, possibly in couplets

Instructions in prayer — seven lines, probably monorime, possibly a translation of the Latin Pro debita circum… which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Warning against telling all one knows, in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook
— a single stanza of eight lines

The Hours of the Cross — couplets arranged in one 6-line stanza and seven quatrains

A Dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Infant — thirty-seven quatrains (abab) with refrain ‘Alone in my longyng’ and two-line burden: ‘Lullay lullay la lullay / My dere moder lullay’

A song of the Nativity, Star, Magi, etc., and reference to the Passion — twenty quatrains (abab) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A song of the Virgin Mary and Joseph — sixteen quatrains (a virelai)

Bidding to worship the child Jesus — one cross-rhymed quatrain

Christ weeps in the cradle for man’s sin — seven quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Lullay lullay litel child / qwi wepest þou so sore’

On Mutability — four lines, abcb; or 6 lines, abcddc; or two long lines, in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Poverty and Penance — two 6-line stanzas (aabccb) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A couplet translating ‘Tunc est preclara apud Deum abstinencia cum animus ieiunat a viciis’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Paraphrase of Ecclesiasticus iii. 32, in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook — a couplet

A couplet translating ‘Omne seminarium voluptatis venenum puta’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

On the pitfalls of praise — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook translating ‘Non bene creduntur si multa loquatur…’ or ‘Non bene creduntur nimium qui blanda locuntur…’ which precedes it

On speaking truth — one couplet translating ‘Rara credatur cuiquam si multa loquatur’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On flattery — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook translating ‘Si vis ditari vel ut propheta vocari…’, which follows it

On the power of money, in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook — two couplets

On greed — four couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Four lines translating: ‘Nil tuum dixeris quod potes perderis’, etc. in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Consilium Diaboli’ — three couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A triplet on the slothful man in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the slothful man — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Nescio quid sit amor — two quatrains (abab) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook translating four Latin lines

Christ died for our sins — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Love of Christ — four rhyming lines (aa) appearing twice in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Love one another — one couplet translating ‘Noli esse pro amoico inimicus proximo tuo’ (Ecclesiasticus 6.1) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Four of the ‘Twelve Abuses of the Age’ — four monoriming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

On Christian love — one couplet translating ‘Dileccio proximi malum non operatur’ (Rom. 13.10) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On Christian Love — four couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Love one another — one couplet translating ‘Noli esse pro amoico inimicus proximo tuo’ (Ecclesiasticus 6.1) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On returning evil for evil — one couplet written to the right of, and commenting on, ‘Nulli malum pro malo reddentes’ (Rom. 12.17) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A hymn on the Angelic Salutation — ten lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The soul of the Christian likened to gold — seven monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes following ‘Sic in anima debet esse’

The Appeal of the Virgin Mary to the Jews — two quatrains in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

A tag, translating ‘Tota die laudat qui omnia bene agit’, here attributed to Augustine — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Blessings on the Virgin Mary for suckling Christ — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notes following ‘Benedicta sint vbera que lactauerunt Christum’

Verses on who shall have the bliss of Heaven — two couplets translating ‘Pauper et esuriens mitis mundus miseratus’ (Matt. 5.3-10), which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

The Beatitudes — seven couplets, each accompanied with the corresponding Latin tag from Matt. 5:3-10

Two couplets, translating Lamentations 5:15-16

On involuntary sinful thoughts — five couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

How to know thyself, paraphrasing the formula Nosce teipsum — three monorhyming lines

On worldly goods — two couplets translating ‘Absit ditari qui se wult mente beari.…’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Avaricious Man — one couplet translating ‘Ditari nitor non curo quomodo ditor’ in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Aphorism in John of Grimestone’s sermon book — one couplet

A couplet translating ‘Hic bene se ditat qui semper inania uitat’

Cupiditas est — three lines

The Sixteen Points of Charity — eight couplets paraphrasing I Cor.13:4-8 in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

On God’s gift of light and colour — one monorhyming quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The vow of the penitent and the confessor’s reply — three couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Characteristics of children — one couplet translating ‘Sicut pueri parui, puri, paruo saciati / Ludunt conformes, cito dant, cito pacificantur’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Youth and Age — three couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The fruits of carnal sin — one couplet translating ‘Si secundum carnem vixeritis moriemini’ (Rom. 8.13) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Crux est’ — four lines

A prayer for purity of thought — one monorhyming 4-line stanza in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Christ’s words of institution — one couplet after the heading ‘Hoc est corpus meum’ in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

The benefits of Corpus Christi — two quatrains in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Corpus Christi’ — one quatrain (abab) translating ‘Rex sedet in mensa turba cinctus duodena’ which is written to its left in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A speaker bewails that backbiting has lended him in hell — one quatrain following the Latin, Lingua calet igne, iam inheret mosibus ori…

Against flatterers, paraphrasing Latin verses: Multis annis iam transactis nulla fides in pactis — one quatrain to the right in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Sin and speech go together — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the pitfalls of praise — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook translating ‘Non bene creduntur si multa loquatur…’ or ‘Non bene creduntur nimium qui blanda locuntur…’ which precedes it

On speaking truth — one couplet translating ‘Rara credatur cuiquam si multa loquatur’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On Christian love — one couplet translating ‘Dileccio proximi malum non operatur’ (Rom. 13.10) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Praise comes with a price — two couplets in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

True esteem — one monorhyming quatrain translating ‘Vera sine simulacione dupplicitatis…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

The fruits of true love — one couplet translating ‘Fideles in dileccione acquiescent ei’ (Wis. 3.9) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The problem of wealth — one couplet translating ‘Cum quis positus in prosperitate diligitur, incertum valde est vtrum possessor vel prosperitas diligatur’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

The price of wealth — one couplet translating ‘Nam qui diuites volunt fieri…’ (1 Tim. 6.9) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On worldly goods — one proverbial couplet translating ‘Da tua dum tua sunt: post mortem tunc tua non sunt’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

On wealth — one couplet translating ‘Melior est pauper ambulans in simplicitate sua…’ (Prov. 19:1) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

How pastors should care for souls — three monorhyming lines translating ‘Per dulcedinem doctrine in predicando’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A translation of ‘Venite filii audite me…’ (Ps. 33.12) — one couplet following this text in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Pleasures worth attending to — one monorhyming quatrain in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

On almsgiving — one couplet translating ‘Nuncquam est manus vacua munere dum mens impletur bona voluntate’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On almsgiving — one couplet translating ‘Nuncquam est manus vacua munere dum mens impletur bona voluntate’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The reward for following Christ — one couplet translating ‘Tali wultu respiciet te Dominus ea que facis cum quali facis’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The effects of drink — a proverbial couplet translating ‘Ebrietas frangit quicquid sapientia tangit’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon note

On Christ’s faithfulness — one couplet in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

A proverbial couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notes, paraphrasing ‘Quatuor ista: timor, odio, dileccio, census’, which precedes it

God’s grace — one couplet translating ‘Homo non habet graciam non quia hanc non dat Deus’, attributed in the MS to Anselm, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

XII Gradus Humilitatis secundum Bernardum — seven couplets

A morning grace — two couplets introduced by ‘Wanne þe sunne rist’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

De Gloria Mundi: on the instability of worldly bliss — one six-line stanza in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Gloria mundi est — four lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

‘De Gloria Eterna’ — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Be Humble and Shrive Thee Oft — three couplets

Love God, thyself, thy friend and thy foe (4 lines), a tag in the Fasciculus morum

Four enemies of salvation — two couplets in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Friends are fickle — two couplets translating ‘Tempore felici multi tibi numerantur amici’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On ingratitude — two couplets translating ‘Lex et natura Christus simul omnia iura / Dampnant ingratum plangung illum fore natum’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

On the vanity of life — two couplets following ‘Lex et natura…’, which they translate in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Two couplets, translating Lamentations 5:15-16

Beware of Hell — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On oaths — one couplet translating ‘Lex et fama fies deuerencia caucio dampni / Defectus veri tibi dant iurare licenter’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On fasting — one proverbial couplet translating ‘Tale est ieiunium sine eleemosyna qualis sine oleo lucerna’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

The seeds of lust — one proverbial couplet translating ‘Si cum viris femine habita[n]t incendiarium diaboli non deerit’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

A complaint about bribery in the law — two couplets translating ‘lex est defuncta quia iudicis est manus vncta / Ob cuius vnguentum lex est in carcere tentum’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Avoid fornication — one couplet translating ‘Abstineatis vos ab omni fornicatione’ (1 Thess. 4.3) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Avoid bad company — two couplets translating ‘Siu Venerem vitare velis loca tempora fuge / Si venis tempora venit si fugis tempora fugit’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Sin is like a snake — one couplet translating ‘Ingreditur blande set in nouissimo mordebat vt colub[er]’ (Prov. 23.31-2) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The fruits of lust — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The heart as master of the tongue — two couplets translating ‘Cor lingue capud est sicud uir femine…’ written to its left in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

A lament for worldly bliss — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon book

Hear much and speak little — two couplets translating ‘Cum nihil auscultes set plurima vana loquaris’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On works of mercy — three couplets explicating ‘Vestire nudos…’ which is written to the left in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Mercy of God — five couplets

A prayer of penitence — one 6-line stanza in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A proverbial couplet translating ‘Nulli se iunggit, sua quem discordia pungit’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Life’s brevity — one couplet translating ‘Breues dies homis sunt numerus mensium, etc.’ (Job 14.5) written to the right of the Latin in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The character of Death — one triplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A tag in John Grimestone’s sermon notes — one couplet

Proverbs of Hendyng

Death’s warning — one monorhyming quatrain translating ‘Si quis eris qui transieris sta respice plora’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Death comes suddenly — one couplet in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Death comes unexpectedly — one quatrain translating ‘Et nocet et nocuit semper differre paratis / Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Death’s inevitability — one quatrain translating ‘Si prece vel precio potuisset Mors superare…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On using time — one quatrain (abab) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Keeping one’s soul safe — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A four-line acrostic on death — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

‘Erthe upon erthe’

A couplet translating, ‘Mors cunctis certa nil est incertius hora’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Two couplets translating ‘Dic homo vas scelerum quid prodest copia rerum / In modica fossa clauderis pellis et ossa’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A cross-rhymed quatrain translating, ‘Dic homo quid speres…’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Admonition to prepare for Death — a quatrain translating ‘Vir vitam querit non sentit quod morietur / Morti sternetur sic homo falsus erit’ which preceds it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On mortality — two couplets translating ‘Est homo res fragilis’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Signs of Death — four lines

Two couplets translating ‘Hic habitabo clausus in tumulo’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A dead person speaks — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Verses translating ‘Viuimus hic sorte, noli spem ponere morte’ which precedes it — one quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

‘Quatuor tortores hominis in mundo’, a tag from the Castell of Love (5131) — eight lines (abababab) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Paradoxes of faith — two short couplets with Latin prose comments to the right in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Four lines translating ‘Non vox set votum. Non musica cordula set cor’, etc., a tag in the Fasciculus Morum, which precedes it

A couplet from the Te Deum translating, ‘Te ergo quesumus famulis tuis subueni quos precioso sanguine redimisti’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook — one couplet

The Pater Noster — three quatrains in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

De Obediencia — two couplets translating ‘Portatur leuiter quod portat quisque libenter’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On obedience — five monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes following ‘Oculos parat visui…’ attributed in the MS to Jerome

To think of one’s birth points us to death — one quatrain translating ‘Si quis sentiret
quo tendit et vnde veniret…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Four things of which to be mindful — two couplets translating ‘Mos tua mors domini fraus mundi gloria celi / Et dolor inferni sint meditanda tibi’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Proverbial advice on the value of study — two couplets translating ‘Viue vacans studio, quasi numquam sis moriturus…’ which precedes it in both instances in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Debate between the Heart and the Eye — four couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Peccator assimilatur’ — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On avoiding sin — one couplet paraphrasing ‘Tu caueas caueas ne perias per eas’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Adam’s Fall — one long couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon book

On sin — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A proverbial couplet, translating ‘Qui male agit odit lucem’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Warning against the pleasures of lust — four lines translating ‘Nulli confundi misera dulcedine mundi…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Eve’s fall and Mary’s redemption — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notes interlineated with Latin prose lines which they translate

A sinner’s lament — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon book following ‘Quilibet peccator potest dicere Amen’

One couplet, translating ‘Fiat pax in virtute tua’ (Ps. 121.7) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Modest behavior — one quatrain (abab) translating ‘Qui facis ingressum studeas sic esse modestus…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Three dangerous things — three monorhyming lines to the right of and translating ‘Nauis in pelago’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On poverty — one couplet translating ‘Pauper vbique iacet dum sua bursa tacet’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Augustine’s Candet nudatum pectus, etc. — four long lines

The Virgin Mary and her Son, Man’s Advocates — three couplets

Christ speaks of his sufferings — one couplet translating ‘Lancea crux claui mors spine quam toilleraui’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Turn to the Cross — one quatrain translating ‘In cruce fige pedem de Christo fac tibi sedem / Frondes carpe tibi fructus amoris ibi’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ speaks from the Cross — one monorhyming quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon book explicating ‘Mors mea quam dura fuir, indicat ista figura’, which precedes it

Christ’s wounds — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

One couplet translating ‘Quis te lesit ita Iesu dulcissima vita…’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s loving heart — two couplets translating ‘Sic transformatur cor amantis in id quod amatur’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Love of Christ — four rhyming lines (aa) appearing twice in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s crucified face — one monorhyming quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook introduced by ‘Apparet mihi quod facies Christi’

Sanguis Christi: Drink it in faith — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Think on Christ — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A verse translation of ‘Semetipsum exinaniuit formam serui accipiens, etc.’ (Phil. 2.6-7) which precedes it — two couplets in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Christ’s lament — four monorhyming lines

Christ’s sacrifice — two couplets commenting on ‘Corpus Christi liquessebat’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

On Christ’s Blood — four monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Christ’s tears — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Christ’s appeal — one couplet

A lament for Christ on account of sin, in John Grimestone’s sermon notes — three lines

A prayer for remembrance of the Passion — six couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Christ’s Prayer in Gethsemane — two monorhyming quatrains

A song of Jesus — twenty-two lines each beginning with ‘Ihesu’ in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Jesus, Man’s Champion — two quatrains

Augustine’s Candet nudatum pectus — three quatrains

A Lullaby of the Virgin Mary — 32 lines (alternating aaaa with multiple couplets) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The Lament of the Virgin Mary at the Cross — three monorhyming quatrains in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Dialogue between Christ and the Virgin — three quatrains

The ‘Arms of Christ’ — three couplets

Christ’s Love-Song to Man — three 6-line stanzas (aabccb) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A dialogue between Christ on the Cross and the Virgin Mary — three quatrains in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her son — eighteen couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Ecce sto ad hostium et pulso’, Appeal of Christ to his leman and the reply — two 6-line stanzas and five couplets

On the three virtues of Christ’s blood, in John Grimestone’s sermon notes — two couplets

On redemption by Christ’s Passion, in John Grimestone’s sermon notes — one couplet with ‘Immolatus est Christus’ written to the right

Mary’s lament at the Cross — one 8-line stanza

A Remembrance of the Passion — one 9-line stanza in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Verses asserting that Mercy is assured through the Pains of Christ — one six-line stanza in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The Senses and the Crucifixion — two couplets as sermon heads with Latin side notes: ‘Respiciamus: oculis, auribus, gustu, tactu’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Oracio bona — one couplet from John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

On suffering love — one couplet translating ‘Maiorem caritatem nemo habet, etc.’ (Jn 15.13) which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ on the tree — four couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A mourning song of the Passion — two quatrains explicating ‘Non me possum continere’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Appeal of Christ to Man his ‘Lemman’ — two couplets following ‘Stes homo respicias’ in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

The Christ Child Shivering with Cold: a dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary — five 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

An ABC poem on the Passion — in 6-line stanzas

A song of Doomsday — one 6-line stanza in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

A renunciation of the world — twenty-two lines, 8 couplets and two triplets

The Wounds as remedies against the Seven Deadly Sins — seven 8-line stanzas (ababcdcd) in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

‘O homo vide quid pro te patior’ — five couplets

A song of the Passion, in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook — four six-line stanzas (aabccb) and burden: ‘Lu[u]eli ter of loueli eyȝe / Qui dostu me so wo / Sorful ter of sorful eyȝe / Þu brekst myn herte ato’

Appeal of Christ to Man from the Cross — two quatrains

I would be clothed in Christ’s skin — one 8-line stanza (abababab) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s words to man — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

‘Popule meus quid feci tibi’ — eleven quatrains (abab)

‘Lamentacio dolorosa’ (Appeal of Christ to Man from the Cross) — fourteen long lines in couplets

The manner of turning to God — three couplets with internal rhyme in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook, introduced by ‘ȝe suln turnen to God’.

Christ the Champion for Love — four couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

A hymn of love to Jesus, vaguely based on the preceding Latin, O amor vehemens, Iesu dulcissime… — one 8-line stanza

O vos omnes qui transitis per viam — four long lines translating Lamentations 1.12

Christ’s words from the cross — two couplets translating ‘In cruce sum pro te’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s appeal from the cross, in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook — four quatrains (abab), interspersed in Latin sermon

The Ten Commandments — generally eight long lines

Christ’s Wounds as Remedies for the Deadly Sins — seven quatrains with Latin couplets before and between in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Evils of the times — one seven-line stanza in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The bonds of religious life — two couplets translating ‘Oportet enim quod / Pedes tue affeccionis stringantur vinculo castitatis’ which they precede in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Christ’s work and our response — seven lines translating their Latin equivalents (f. 135v) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Man’s answer to God at the judgment — three monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook introduced ‘Oportet te reddere racionem’

The fruits of pride — one quatrain translating ‘Si tibi copia si sapientia formaque detur’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

A proverbial warning against pride — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Virtue is not hereditary — one quatrain translating ‘Nil prodest filio probitas parentis’ etc. which precedes it (left column) in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Vanity of Mortal Life, in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook — six couplets

On pride — two couplets translating ‘Nobilitas generis, prelacio copia rerum’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the vanity of life — one quatrain based on ‘Vide, qualis eris, [qui] mundi guadia queris’, which is written to the left

On speaking and keeping silent — one couplet translating ‘Scire loquir decus est decus est et scire tacere / Hec duo si poteris scire peritus eris’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On the Wise Man — a single monorhyming quatrain

Six rules against the sins of the tongue — one quatrain translating two Latin hexameters inserted in two MSS of the Book of Vices and Virtues, and also occuring separately

Holiness the Road to Love and Honor — three couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Advice for spiritual living — four monorhyming lines with internal rhyme in John Grimestone’s sermon notes on II Cor. 6.2

Time as friend as foe — two couplets translating ‘O quam cara caro rationi consona raro’ which is written to the left of the English in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

The fruits of worldly joys — four lines translating ‘Quam breue festum est hec mundi gaudia’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Make wise use of Time — one quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon notes preceding ‘Dampna fleo rerum, set plus fleo dampna dierum’

Three sorrowful things — six lines

Proverbial advice on the value of study — two couplets translating ‘Viue vacans studio, quasi numquam sis moriturus…’ which precedes it in both instances in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Repent now — two couplets translating ‘Peniteant miseri dum temus sit miserendi…’ which precedes them in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Four evils to which those not tempted are susceptible — one monorhyming quatrain translating ‘Cordis eleuacio mentis et corporis vagacio’ which is written to its left in John Grimestone’s preaching notebook

Using our will — one couplet translating ‘[…] mihi adiacet perficere autem non inuenio’, which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Evils of the times — four monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notes

Christ’s saving work — two couplets in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

Our relationship to God — one monrhyming quatrain in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook

On Christ’s life — three monorhyming lines in John Grimestone’s sermon notebook introduced ‘Nota quod via Christi vel vita fuit’

God’s mercy — one couplet in John Grimestone’s sermon notes translating ‘Omnes vie Domini tue misericoridia et veritas‘ (Tobias 3:2) which precedes it