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Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.3.1

The Huntyng of the Hare — in 6-line stanzas

Concluding rubric by the scribe concerning the poems copied — one couplet

Nonsense verses — twenty-one alliterative lines

Sir Gowther, a ‘Breton lai’ — in 12-line stanzas

Urbanitatis — ninety-eight lines in couplets

Sir Isumbras — in 12-line stanzas (aabccbddbeeb)

The Lay Folks’ Mass Book

A macaronic carol of the Nativity — nine quatrains (abab) and two-line burden: ‘The almyghty Kyng of blys / Assumpsit carnem virginis’

Nonsense verse — in couplets

Spiritual advice — a three line fragment

A single stanza (Bk. II, lines 4432-8) from Lydgate’s Fall of Princes (1904) — rhyme royal.

Rhyming proverbs — four couplets

Proverbs ascribed to R. Stokys (by MacCracken to Lydgate) — five stanzas rhyme royal

Ave regina celorum — six 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), each with Latin final line

‘Þat Pese may stond’ — eight 12-line stanzas (ababababbcbc) with refrain, ‘And lene hus grace that pes may stand’

Sir Amadace — generally in 12-line stanzas

‘The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke’ — fifty-four couplets

A song of the Annunciation — in 8-line stanzas with the refrain, ‘Ecce ancilla domini’

‘Ay Merci God and Graunt Merci’ — twelve 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc), alliterative, including refrain, ‘With marcy Lorde & gramarcy’ or ‘mercy god and graunt merci’

‘Seruice is noon heritage’ — nine 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with this refrain

Deo gracias — eleven 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with this refrain

Verbum caro factum est, the Virgin Mary’s song of the Nativity — seven 8-line stanzas including this Latin refrain

On contemporary conditions — eleven quatrains with refrain, ‘quod omnis caro fenum est’, and burden: ‘Man in þi mynd loket þis be best / Omnis caro fenum est’

Maydestone’s paraphrase of the Fifty-first Psalm — twenty 8-line stanzas (abababab)

‘Visio Tundali’ — in couplets

Concluding rubric by the scribe concerning the poems copied — one couplet

William Lychefelde, ‘Complaint of God’ — sixty-eight 8-line stanzas (abababab)

A Song of Love to Jesus — fourteen 8-line stanzas (abababab)

Fragment of a song — three cross-rhymed lines and burden couplet: ‘yeyhe heyhe heyhe heyhe / syn I scholde sins what sschold I seye’

Lamentacio Peccatoris, Prologue to the Adulterous Falmouth Squire (3348), a lament for the soul of William Basterfield, Knight — 99 lines in the longest text, mostly in 8-line stanzas

Four things that make a man fall from Reason, perhaps by Lydgate — one stanza rhyme royal

Precepts in -ly — usually two quatrains, but sometimes in expanded versions

Life of Our Lady

Dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Child — seven l0-line stanzas (ababccdeed) including refrain, ‘To syng by by lully lulley’ plus 7-line burden (aaabccb): ‘This enders nyght / I sawe a sight / A sterre as bryght / As any day / & euer a monge / A maydyn songe / Lylley by by lully lulley’

Prognostications from the amount of thunder in the months of the year — twelve quatrains in couplets

English verses on the Signs of the Zodiac — three 6-line stanzas and nine quatrains, all in couplets

The trental of Saint Gregory — 101 couplets

Concluding rubric by the scribe concerning the poems copied — one couplet