The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.3.1
Number 95-1
Number 762-1
Number 5408-1
Number 1595-2
Number 6649-2
Number 1934-7
Number 5537-7
Number 589-4
Number 1770-1
Number 3345-1
Number 1108-11
Number 4811-5
Number 4800-4
Number 1691-4
Number 2928-1
15. ff. 66-67
v Jesu that was born of Mary free‘Þat Pese may stond’ — eight 12-line stanzas
(ababababbcbc) with refrain, ‘And lene hus grace that pes may
stand’
Number 5552-1
Number 3134-6
Number 1173-2
18. ff. 89
v-90
v Ecce ancilla dominiA song of the Annunciation — in 8-line stanzas with the refrain,
‘Ecce ancilla domini’
Number 631-4
Number 2441-2
20. ff. 91-92
v In a chamber as I stood‘Seruice is noon heritage’ — nine 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)
with this refrain
Number 2443-3
Number 637-2
22. ff. 94
v-95
v As I went through a garden green
Verbum caro factum est, the Virgin Mary’s song of the Nativity
— seven 8-line stanzas including this Latin refrain
Number 612-1
23. ff. 95
v-96
As I me rode in a May morningOn 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’
Number 3481-6
Number 2866-4
Number 762-2
Number 4312-8
Number 2940-17
Number 6484-1
29. f. 173
v When ye have song all in fereFragment of a song — three cross-rhymed lines and burden couplet:
‘yeyhe heyhe heyhe heyhe / syn I scholde sins what sschold I
seye’
Number 317-4
Number 6798-7
Number 4810-8
32. f. 175
Serve thy God trulyPrecepts in -ly — usually two quatrains, but sometimes in expanded
versions
Number 4080-36
Number 5729.2-4
34. ff. 210
v-211
v This lovely lady sat and sangDialogue 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’
Number 6477-3
Number 5489-2
36. ff. 212-212
v The sun is here in his signEnglish verses on the Signs of the Zodiac — three 6-line stanzas and nine
quatrains, all in couplets
Number 4979-4
Number 762-3