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London, British Library Addit. 34360 [olim Phillipps 9053]

John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum — 130 stanzas rhyme royal, including Envoy

Chaucer’s ‘Complaynt to his Empty Purse’ — three stanzas rhyme royal and 5-line Envoy

‘Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune’ — twenty or twenty-one stanzas rhyme royal

‘Womanly Noblesse — Balade that Chauncier made’ — three 9-line stanzas and 6-line Envoy

A single stanza rhyme royal, occurring separately and in combinations

John Lydgate, The Order of Fools — twenty-two 8-line stanzas

’Hors, Goose and Shepe’

’The Boke called Assemble de Damys’, ascribed to Chaucer — 755 lines in rhyme royal stanzas, including eleven introductory stanzas and three concluding stanzas

‘The Compleynt unto Pite’

‘The Balade of Pite’ or ‘A Compleint to his Lady’ — 130 lines in various stanza forms

John Lydgate, paraphrase of Psalm 102 — twenty-two 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) with Latin text of Psalm preceding each stanza

John Lydgate, ‘Gloriosa Dicta sunt de Te’ (The Virgin Mary likened to the New Jerusalem) — twenty-nine 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

John Lydgate, ‘Gloriosa Dicta sunt de Te’ (The Virgin Mary likened to the New Jerusalem) — twenty-nine 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

On precious stones, especially the ‘Lapis Christus’; attrib. to ‘Richardoune’ — eight 7-line stanzas

A prayer to Jesus — six 8-line stanzas

A prayer to the Virgin Mary — six 8-line stanzas

Verses on the Kings of England (Lydgate)

John Lydgate, ‘Dietary’ — ten 8-line stanzas

John Lydgate, letter to Gloucester for money — eight 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) including Envoy; refrain ‘Onely for lak of plate and of coignage’ or refrain phrase ‘plate and of coignage’

Epitaphium eiusdam Ducis Glowcestrie, A.D. 1447 — thirteen 8-line stanzas with refrain, ‘Have mercy on hym buryed in this sepulture’

John Lydgate, On Kissing at ‘Verbum caro factum est’ — four 8-line stanzas

John Lydgate, a version of ‘Stella Celi extirpauit’ — four eight-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

John Lydgate, ‘A Prayer for King Henry VI and his Queen and the People’ — eight stanzas rhyme royal, and an Envoy of four stanzas

John Lydgate, ‘Consulo quisque eris’ — fifteen 8-line stanzas

John Lydgate, ‘A dyte of womenhis hornys’ — ten 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc) including four-stanza envoy

The Craft of Lovers, a dialogue between Cupido and Diana — twenty-six stanzas rhyme royal

The uncertainty of worldly honour — one stanza rhyme royal

On removing spots made by wine, water, and milk — one stanza rhyme royal

‘Devoute & vertuos wordes’ — four long lines

John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of old Philisoffres — 390 stanzas rhyme royal