The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Found Records:
Christmas Carolles, [R. Copland f.] R. Kele, [1545?]
3.
Death began because of sinWe all must die — seven 8-line stanzas (ababcdcd) with ‘Forsothe
all we shall dye’ refrain and 4-line burden: ‘Be thou poore or be thou ryche
/ I rede lyfte vp thyn eye / And se i this we be all lyche / Forsothe all we shall
dye’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 1101-1
4.
Get thee hence what doest thou here
Farewell to Advent — two quatrains (aaab) and burden:
‘Farewell aduent & haue good daye / Chrystmas is come nowe go thy
way’.
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 1505-1
7.
Holly beareth berries red enoughHolly against Ivy — four monorhyming quatrains and burden: ‘Nay nay
ive it may not be iwis / For holy must haue the mastry as the maner
is’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 2039-3
8.
I shall you tell this ilk nightA carol to St. Stephen — six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘The holy
marter Steuen we pray / To be our socour both myght and day’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 2276-2
9.
In this time of ChristmasMary plays with the Christ Child, a carol — six quatrains (aaab) and
burden: ‘In the honour of christes byrth / Syng we al with joye and
myrthe’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 2642-1
11.
Lords and ladies all bedene‘A new caroll of our lady’ — eight quatrains (abab) and
2-line burden: ‘Nowell nowell nowell nowell / This sayd the aungell
gabryell’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 3257-1
13.
Most sovereign Lord Christ Jesu‘Miserere nobis’: a carol to Christ — five 5-line
stanzas (aaabb) with ‘Miserere nobis‘ refrain and burden:
‘Jesu christe fili dei viui mise[rere no]bis /
Alleluya’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 3562-1
14.
My lady went to CanterburyA nonsense carol — eight quatrains (abab) and 4-line burden: ‘My
harte of golde as true as stele / As I me lened to a bough / In fayth but yf ye loue me
well / Lorde so robyn lough’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 3620-1
16.
O blessed John the EvangelistA carol to St. John — five quatrains (aaab) and 2-line burden:
‘Pray for vs to god on hye / Blyssed saynt johan and our lady’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 3839-1
17.
Psallemus cantantes / Domino noua cantica dantesA hymn to St. John the Evangelist — eleven 8-line stanzas (aabbbcc)
including refrain, ‘
Amice cristi Iohannes’ (cf. burden to
3909), the first stanza wholly in Latin,
the first English, ‘My hert is set to syng / That all this worlde shall
ryng…’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 4421-1
18.
Sinful man thou art unkindThe Appeal of Christ to the sinner — six 7-line stanzas (ababccd) with
4-line burden: ‘Blow þe winde styl & blow nat so shyl / My blode man I
shed for þe al at wyl / Blowe þe winde styl & blowe nat so shyll /
Þis paine to suffre is my fathers wil’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 4852-1
19.
The holy ghost is to thee sentAn Annunciation carol — six quatrains (aaab) and burden: ‘Hayl mary
ful of grace / Moder in virginite’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 5335-3
20.
The name of Johan well prays I mayCarol to St. John the Baptist — five 8-line stanzas (ababcdcd) with
refrain, ‘It is a name of pryce’ and 4-line burden: ‘If thou be johan
I tell it the / Ryght with a good aduyce / Thou may be glad johan to be / It is a name
of pryce’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 5416-1
21.
The nun walked on her prayer‘Inducas inducas / In temptationibus’ — 4 macaronic
quatrains (abab) with this burden
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 5426-1
23.
This voice both sharp and also shrill‘Uenite ad iudicium’ — eight quatrains (aaab) with
refrain, ‘Uenite ad iudicium’ and two-line burden: ‘A voyce
from heuen to erth shall com / Uenite ad iudicium’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 5774-1
24.
When that my sweet son was thirty winter oldA song of the Passion by the Virgin Mary — five monorhyming quatrains and
burden: ‘O my harte is woo mary she sayd so / For to se my dere son dye &
sonnes haue I no mo’
Printed Book: STC52045 Witness 6423-2