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Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.2.1 [Auchinleck MS]

‘Vite Ade et Eue’ — a fragment in couplets

Gregorius — in 8-line stanzas

‘þe Kyng of Tars and þe Soudan of Dammas’ — 1228 lines in 12-line stanzas (aabaabccbddb)

The Life of St Margaret — in long-line quatrains

Life of St. Katharine — in long monorhyming quatrains

Owayne Miles, a version of St. Patrick’s Purgatory — in 6-line tail-rhyme stanzas

‘þe disputisoun betwen þe bodi and þe soule’ — 61 to 74 eight-line stanzas (abababab) sometimes written as quatrains with medial rhyme

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

The Harrowing of Hell — in couplets

The clerk blinded by the glory of the Virgin Mary — 200 lines in 12-line stanzas, ababababcdcd

‘Speculum Gyde Warewyke’ (also entitled ‘Speculum Mundi’ and ‘Speculum vtile istius mundi’) — in couplets

Amys and Amiloun — in 12-line stanzas

Life of St Mary Madgalene — in couplets

South English Legendary

Lines on the Prophets, used in the South English Legendary as prologue or headlink to a number of legends (4196, 3452, 6380, and 6690) — four or five lines in couplets

On the Deadly Sins, Ten Commandments, Pater noster, Creed, Ave Maria, and the Hours of the Cross — 308 lines in couplets

‘þe Pater noster vndo on englissh’ — in couplets

The Assumption of the Virgin — in 736 lines in 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

Sir Degare — 1076 verses in short couplets

The Seuyn Sages of Rome — in short couplets; ‘A’ text

Floris and Blaunchfleur — in couplets

The Abuses of the Age: On the King’s Breaking the Magna Charta — English lines in varying stanzas, with alternate Anglo-Norman lines at the beginning

Guy of Warwick (First version) — 11,095 lines in couplets.

The Romance of Guy of Warwick: the story of Guy after marriage — 299 12-line stanzas.

Reinbrun Gy Sone of Warwike — 127 12-line stanzas (aabaabccbddb)

Sir Beues of Hamtoun — 4620 lines in 6-line stanzas (lines 1-474) and couplets (lines 475-4620)

Arthour and Merlin — 9938 lines in couplets

‘þe wenche þat [lov]ed [a k]ing’ — 24 lines in couplets

‘A Penni Worthe of Witte’ — 400 lines in couplets

A miracle of the Virgin Mary, how Our Lady’s Psalter was found — in 6-line stanzas

Lai de Freine — in couplets

Roland and Vernagu — 880 lines in 12-line stanzas

[The Romance of] Sir Otuel — in couplets

Kyng Alisaunder — 8021 lines in couplets

The Thrush and the Nightingale

The Sayings of St. Bernard

A paraphrase of the Fifty-first Psalm — forty-three couplets

Sir Tristrem — 3344 verses in 11-line stanzas

Sir Orfeo — in couplets

The Four Foes of Mankind — seven 16-line stanzas (aaabcccbdddbeeeb)

The Anonymous Short Metrical Chronicle of England — in couplets

Horn Childe and Maiden Rimhild — 1136 lines in 12-line stanzas (aabaabccbddb)

Praise of women (?by Lynne) — in 11-line stanzas , ababababcdc, with the first ‘c’ a short ‘bob’ line

Richard Coer de Lion — 7262 lines in couplets

Þe simonie, on the Evil Times of the reign of Edward II — in 6-line stanzas including wheel and bob