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322
323
325
384
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409
417.8
443
447
465.3
471
506.5
512.8
520
553.5
575
577
578
605.5
649.5
696
711
719
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728
729.3
735
735.5
738.5
745
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827.5
827.8
834.5
854.5
865.5
908.4
928.5
936
1009.5
1135
1143
1192
1215
1223
1258
1289
1312
1326
1326.5
1361
1371
1378.5
1390
1441.5
1457
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1546
1565
1580
1585.8
1604
1620.5
1637
1666
1702
1801
1806
1810
1811
1816
1871.3
1907.5
1931.8
1950
1967.5
2026.5
2033.5
2071
2105
2106
2120
2132
2140
2180
2232
2251
2255.3
2255.6
2262.3
2284.3
2323.8
2384.8
2413
2478.8
2501.5
2525
2612
2647
2652.5
2667
2684.5
2698.2
2700
2702.5
2707
2711.5
2717
2719
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2743
2806
2890
2920.5
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3039
3068.5
3069
3093
3120
3204
3252
3292
3318.2
3319
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3369
3404
3431
3434
3452
3496.3
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3533.5
3538.5
3559
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3614
3637.5
3694
3703.8
3743
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3767
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3795
3807
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4040.6
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4106.5
4118
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4235.5
4254.5
4256.5
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6.5
8.3
8.5
10.5
24.5
28.6
28.9
32.3
32.7
33.2
33.9
34.2
34.8
36.2
36.5
36.7
42.7
54.2
60.5
62.3
62.7
65.2
78.3
79.2
84.5
86.4
86.45
86.85
86.9
87.7
91.3
95.6
95.7
97.5
98.3
102.4
108.7
108.8
108.9
109.3
109.7
111.5
113.3
113.6
113.9
120.8
120.9
121.3
121.4
122.7
133.7
134.7
135.1
135.2
135.4
142.1
142.8
146.7
146.8
150.5
152.7
155.2
158.1
158.15
158.35
158.75
158.95
173.2
177.5
179.5
189.7
190.3
192.5
210.2
222.2
222.7
222.8
225.5
237.5
239.5
241.5
272.7
276.3
276.4
276.9
286.3
286.55
286.6
286.7
286.8
292.5
294.3
294.5
295.2
296.5
299.6
299.7
301.1
301.2
306.6
312.2
313.5
313.7
325.5
325.7
326.9
340.2
340.3
348.5
362.5
367.5
385.5
399.3
400.5
405.5
409.8
410.5
413.5
414.5
417.6
432.5
442.3
442.4
453.5
456.1
456.2
457.2
457.3
458.5
460.5
461.3
467.7
470.7
474.3
480.5
484.3
492.5
495.5
497.5
498.5
505.2
507.3
507.6
511.5
512.2
512.3
513.2
513.5
513.7
515.2
515.3
516.5
524.5
536.5
540.5
543.3
543.7
550.8
552.4
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554.4
554.7
555.5
556.7
558.1
558.7
576.3
576.4
581.5
582.5
584.5
584.7
585.7
586.3
588.3
591.7
594.5
596.5
605.2
607.1
607.2
611.2
611.7
621.7
629.5
635.7
638.3
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641.5
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644.3
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650.5
658.5
660.5
664.9
672.7
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675.1
675.3
676.2
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683.2
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689.3
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713.5
726.5
726.7
728.1
728.3
729.1
729.2
729.4
737.3
737.8
739.5
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752.3
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756.7
763.3
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785.3
790.9
795.5
797.5
802.3
808.5
809.5
812.7
813.6
813.7
823.7
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826.5
834.3
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843.3
843.7
847.5
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858.7
859.3
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861.6
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866.5
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879.3
881.5
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886.7
898.5
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956.2
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960.2
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979.5
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992.5
993.5
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1007.5
1009.1
1009.7
1013.3
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1034.7
1041.7
1070.4
1088.3
1090.5
1120.4
1131.5
1132.7
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1136.6
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1142.3
1145.3
1145.6
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1149.4
1152.3
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1155.5
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1174.9
1176.2
1176.3
1177.5
1187.3
1187.7
1189.5
1190.3
1190.5
1190.7
1191.5
1192.3
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1206.3
1206.5
1206.55
1206.65
1207.3
1211.3
1211.5
1214.8
1214.9
1215.1
1215.3
1220.9
1232.5
1233.5
1240.7
1251.7
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1276.7
1279.5
1281.6
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1281.8
1285.6
1285.7
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1288.3
1291.5
1294.6
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1299.5
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1312.5
1315.5
1322.9
1325.5
1328.4
1330.4
1331.7
1335.5
1337.5
1344.7
1351.5
1353.5
1356.9
1367.2
1381.3
1388.5
1389.6
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1398.5
1405.5
1407.5
1410.3
1410.5
1411.3
1411.7
1417.4
1420.3
1420.7
1422.1
1422.2
1422.7
1425.5
1426.1
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1427.2
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1436.3
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1436.8
1439.3
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1439.85
1439.9
1444.3
1445.3
1455.7
1469.5
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1579.3
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1587.9
1600.5
1606.4
1606.9
1610.5
1611.5
1618.5
1619.5
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1626.7
1628.3
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1651.3
1654.7
1656.5
1662.5
1669.5
1698.5
1702.5
1706.5
1717.6
1736.5
1746.5
1768.5
1786.3
1789.5
1789.7
1793.2
1793.4
1809.5
1811.5
1814.7
1819.5
1831.5
1837.3
1837.5
1840.5
1843.3
1843.7
1873.3
1875.3
1875.7
1886.5
1927.5
1928.5
1929.4
1930.5
1931.4
1936.3
1942.5
1947.5
1949.5
1961.7
1976.5
1978.5
1982.3
1982.7
1993.5
1996.5
1997.5
1999.3
2003.3
2004.5
2006.5
2007.3
2012.2
2017.7
2018.1
2018.3
2027.5
2033.4
2050.3
2062.5
2068.3
2070.5
2076.5
2084.3
2087.5
2089.5
2092.3
2092.7
2095.5
2112.5
2125.5
2130.5
2132.5
2132.7
2134.5
2137.5
2140.7
2141.5
2153.3
2156.5
2164.5
2166.5
2166.7
2167.5
2179.5
2182.2
2190.5
2195.2
2195.23
2195.25
2195.28
2195.7
2218.5
2219.5
2226.3
2241.5
2244.8
2250.2
2256.8
2258.3
2262.2
2272.7
2284.7
2285.3
2285.7
2289.4
2289.7
2290.3
2293.3
2295.5
2300.2
2300.9
2323.4
2324.5
2325.3
2332.5
2358.3
2358.7
2361.3
2380.5
2384.1
2385.5
2393.3
2394.7
2397.5
2406.3
2408.5
2436.5
2454.5
2457.3
2457.8
2472.5
2489.5
2502.5
2536.6
2537.5
2553.5
2553.7
2565.5
2571.7
2577.7
2585.5
2595.5
2608.5
2609.7
2619.83
2619.87
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2621.2
2621.4
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2623.8
2623.9
2633.5
2635.3
2639.8
2647.5
2659.7
2659.8
2660.4
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2664.7
2666.5
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2668.4
2674.3
2680.5
2681.5
2685.7
2688.3
2688.5
2688.7
2689.3
2691.9
2698.5
2701.5
2710.5
2712.5
2715.4
2715.5
2715.8
2721.5
2726.5
2736.1
2741.3
2743.2
2743.7
2747.5
2751.7
2757.2
2766.1
2766.2
2766.3
2766.7
2766.8
2766.9
2768.5
2778.5
2783.5
2784.7
2785.2
2792.6
2794.5
2795.5
2803.7
2806.3
2806.7
2818.1
2818.13
2818.17
2820.2
2825.5
2830.3
2831.1
2834.1
2834.7
2931.5
3028.5
3030.5
3031.5
3065.5
3074.5
3079.5
3079.6
3084.4
3084.5
3084.9
3088.5
3088.7
3091.2
3098.4
3098.5
3098.6
3098.8
3098.9
3099.5
3100.3
3100.4
3100.8
3101.5
3106.3
3107.5
3114.5
3116.7
3118.1
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3119.3
3124.5
3131.7
3135.3
3154.7
3156.5
3159.5
3164.5
3168.3
3168.4
3168.45
3168.7
3169.5
3170.7
3172.3
3172.4
3173.2
3173.7
3178.5
3199.4
3199.45
3207.2
3207.3
3209.1
3209.2
3209.25
3209.3
3209.4
3209.8
3209.9
3209.95
3211.5
3220.3
3220.8
3224.8
3226.5
3227.5
3228.2
3238.4
3245.5
3248.7
3249.5
3255.7
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3257.3
3257.5
3261.5
3269.5
3271.3
3273.5
3281.8
3286.5
3290.2
3290.3
3290.7
3290.8
3291.3
3291.7
3292.4
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3299.5
3306.9
3307.7
3311.5
3318.1
3322.9
3324.3
3324.5
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3325.5
3327.2
3342.5
3352.3
3354.3
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3356.3
3356.5
3358.5
3372.3
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3375.5
3382.5
3397.3
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3409.5
3424.5
3433.5
3434.3
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3475.5
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3498.8
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3542.5
3543.7
3544.5
3547.5
3549.3
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3558.3
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3561.7
3565.7
3569.5
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3577.5
3582.5
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3592.7
3610.5
3611.5
3612.3
3612.6
3612.7
3612.8
3612.9
3620.5
3621.5
3623.7
3627.7
3639.3
3640.5
3642.2
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3645.2
3647.2
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3656.3
3660.3
3660.5
3662.6
3665.5
3666.2
3666.5
3669.5
3680.6
3683.5
3683.7
3692.5
3694.2
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3697.5
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3700.7
3706.1
3707.1
3707.2
3707.3
3707.9
3711.7
3719.6
3720.5
3721.2
3723.5
3729.3
3730.5
3731.3
3731.5
3732.5
3734.7
3743.1
3751.9
3751.95
3755.5
3758.1
3758.2
3758.3
3761.7
3764.3
3764.5
3769.3
3770.7
3770.8
3775.3
3778.7
3780.3
3784.1
3784.3
3792.3
3800.8
3800.9
3803.5
3806.3
3806.5
3810.1
3810.8
3816.7
3823.7
3846.5
3850.5
3851.5
3859.7
3860.1
3860.2
3860.7
3864.5
3869.3
3869.5
3873.5
3889.7
3895.5
3910.7
3917.6
3929.5
3936.5
3941.3
3941.4
3944.5
3947.5
3948.5
3959.5
3967.5
3972.5
3997.7
4003.5
4005.2
4005.3
4005.4
4011.5
4012.5
4015.5
4020.4
4022.5
4026.5
4029.5
4035.1
4049.2
4049.8
4053.3
4056.9
4058.7
4067.3
4067.7
4072.5
4077.3
4077.7
4079.7
4082.5
4082.55
4082.6
4082.7
4091.3
4091.5
4093.5
4094.7
4098.2
4099.5
4109.7
4110.1
4120.1
4120.5
4129.3
4129.7
4130.5
4135.3
4137.5
4139.5
4144.5
4146.5
4158.3
4158.7
4162.8
4165.4
4165.7
4173.5
4174.9
4180.4
4180.5
4180.6
4182.7
4184.5
4185.7
4187.1
4189.4
4190.5
4192.5
4194.7
4199.3
4199.7
4201.7
4201.8
4201.9
4202.5
4202.7
4213.7
4214.7
4219.3
4219.5
4225.7
4227.7
4234.5
4248.5
4254.3
4263.8
4264.1
4267.3
4271.5
4277.5
4284.2
AUTHOR:
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Alfred the Great, king,
Anglicus, Bartholomeus
Aquinas, Thomas
Aquinas, Thomas (attrib.)
Ashby, George
Audelay, John
Audelay, John (?)
Augustine of Hippo
Ausonius,
Banester, Gilbert
Berry, Henry
Berners, Juliana
Boethius,
Bokenam, Osbern
Bokenham, Dorothy
Bozon, Nicholas
Brinton, Thomas
Brunne, Robert
Brunne, Robert of
Burgh, Benedict
Caistre, Richard de
Capgrave, John
Carpenter, Richard (attrib.)
Cato,
Caxton, William
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaucer, Geoffrey (attrib.)
Chaucer, Geoffrey [?]
Clairvaux, Bernard of (attrib.)
Clairveaux, Bernard of
Clanvowe, John
Cornish, William
de Guileville, Guillaume
de Worde, Wynkyn
de la Pole, William (?)
de la Pole, William (attrib.)
d’Orléans, Charles
de Pisan, Christine
Douglas, Gawin
Dunbar, William
Dunbar, William (attrib.)
Dunbar, William (?)
Erceldoune, Thomas of
Fabyan, Robert
Fordun, John de
Fortescue, Sir John (attrib.)
Fulham, Piers of
Gaytryge, John de
Gower, John
Graunson, Oton de Sir
Gregory, Saint
Grimestone, John
Grosseteste, Robert
Halsham (?)
Hardyng, John
Hatfield, Richard
Hawes, Stephen
Hawes, Stephen ?
Hendyng,
Hendyng, (attrib.)
Henley, Walter de
Henry VIII, (attrib.)
Henry VIII, King (attrib.)
Henryson, Robert
Herebert, William
Hoccleve, Thomas
Hoccleve, Thomas (attrib.)
Idley, Peter
Impingham,
James I, king of Scotland, (attrib.)
Jernegan, Robert (?)
Langland, William
Langtoft, Peter
Lichfield, William
Lonuyon,
Lucas, John
Lydgate, John
Lydgate, John (?)
Lydgate, John (attrib)
Lydgate, John (attrib.)
Lydgate, John ?
Magnus, Albertus
Maydestone, Richard
Medwall, Henry
Meniman, William
Merlin, (attrib.)
Minot, Laurence
Mirk, John
More, Thomas
More, Thomas (attrib.)
Nassington, William of
Nevill, William
Newton, Humfrey
Ovid
Pearce the Black Monk, (attrib.)
Pecock, Reginald (attrib.)
Philip, Nicholas Friar
Pigott, John
Quixley, John
Rastell, John
Rich, Edmund Archibishop of Canterbury
Ripley, George (attrib.)
Rolle, Richard
Rolle, Richard (??)
Rolle, Richard (attrib.)
Rolle, Richard of Hampole (attrib.)
Roos, Roos (??)
Russell, John
Ryman, James
Sellyng, Richard
Sheryngham,
Shirley, John
Skelton, John
Stokys, R. (attrib.)
Tours, William of
Trevisa, John
Twici
Waldeby, John
Walton, John
Wikes, Nicholas
Wintoun, Andrew
Wilson, John
Wydeville, Anthony (earl Rivers)
‘Wyllughby’
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Brode Juniori, Johanni
Caluerley, W.
Combe, M. J.
Cotson, William
Duxworth
Herryson, John
leghrewell
leweston
More
nicholaus
Rose
Schort, Thomas
Shirley, John
Spirleng, Galfridi
Stevenns, William
Stow, John
Thame, William
Thornton, Robert
Wytton
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Anastasia, saint, life of
Arthurian literature
Ave Maria
Bannockburn, battle of
Baret, John, of Bury St. Edmunds
Bede the Venerable, saint
Christ
Christ, Passion of
Christ, address to humankind
Christ, appeal of, to man
Christ, ascension of
Christ, burial and resurrection
Christ, coming of
Christ, complaint of, to man
Christ, complaint to man
Christ, hymns to
Christ, life of
Christ, love of
Christ, love toward
Christ, praise to
Christ, prayers to
Christ, sufferings of
Christ, wounds of
Circumcision, feast of
Corpus Christi, feast of
Cross, hours of
Doomsday
Doomsday, signs of
Easter
Edmund, saint
Edmund, saint, life of
Edmund, saint, prayer to
Edward I
Edward I, death of
Edward II
Edward III, death of
Edward IV
Edward the Confessor, saint, life of
Elizabeth of York, queen
England, kings of
Epiphany
Erceldoune, Thomas of
Eucharist
Eustace, saints, life of
Flemish insurrection
Fortune
Fortune, complaint against
Fortune, fickleness of
France, expedition to (1415)
Fraser, Simon, Sir
Fremund, saint, life of
Garter, Order of
George, saint
George, saint, life of
Glanville, De Proprietatibus Rerum, prologue to
God, appeal of, to man
God, prayers to
God, trust in
Hailes (Gloucs.), Cistercian abbey
Harrowing of Hell
Henry II
Henry III
Henry V
Henry VI
Henry VI, prayer on behalf of
Henry VII, death of
Holy Innocents
Host
Idley [Idle], Peter, of Dorchester (Oxon.)
Jerusalem, destruction of
Jesus, love toward
John, king
Katherine of Alexandria, saint
Katherine of Alexandria, saint, life of
Leuckin, John, of London
Lewes, battle of
Longinus, saint, life of
Lucy, saint, life of
Lyric
Marina, saint, life of
Marjory, countess of Dunbar
Mark, saint, life of
Mary Magdalene, saint
Mary Magdalene, saint, life of
Mass, instructions for
Mawryne the monk
May, poems of
May, songs of
Merlin
Nature
Old Testament, history
Old Testament, prophets
Passion
Passion, carols/songs of
Passion, meditations on
Passion, narratives of
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
Pelagia, saint, life of
Pilate, life of
Saint Andrea
Saint Anne
Scots, insults by, against the English
Somer, Henry
Standard, battle of the
Stephen, King of England
Thecla, saint, life of
Thomas of Canterbury, saint
Thomas the apostle, saint
Trinity, treatise on
Troilus and Cressida, story of
Troy, Matter of
Troy, legends of
Ursula, saint
Venus
Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary, hymns to
Virgin Mary, joys of
Virgin Mary, life of
Virgin Mary, love of
Virgin Mary, miracles of
Virgin Mary, praise of
Virgin Mary, prayers to
Virgin Mary, songs in honour of
Waterford (Ireland)
William the Conqueror
Worthies, Nine
Yorkist lords
absence, pangs of
abuses of the age
acrostics
advice
advice, moral
advice, spiritual
advice, to princes
ages of man’s life
allegorical poems
allegories
alliteration
almsgiving
aphorisms
astrology/astronomy
ballads
ballads, religious
birds
birds, as narrators
birds, as speakers/narrators
blessings
bloodletting
body and soul, debate between
bookplates
calendars
carols
carols, Nativity
carols, amorous
carols, convivial
carols, lullaby
carols, of Christ’s pleading
carols, of Doomsday
carols, of marriage
carols, of saints
carols, of the Eucharist
carols, of the Innocents
carols, of women
carols, political
carols, satirical
carols, to Virgin Mary
chansons d’aventure
charms
children, instructions for the behavior of
children’s rhymes
chronicles
chronicles, verse in
clothing, against extremes of
complaints
complaints, lovers’
complexions, four
composite poems
composite texts
conclusions, to prose texts
confession, form of
contemporary conditions
counsel
counsel, value of
court life
courtesy books
courtly love
courts, consistory
crossbow, instructions for
crucifixion
curses
death
death, approach of
death, dance of
death, meditations on
death, signs of
debate, body and soul
debates
debates, bird
debates, body and soul
deceit, on
dedications
despair
devotional verse
dialogues
dialogues, Christ and man
dialogues, Virgin and Christ
dialogues, bird
dialogues, death and man
dialogues, lovers’
dice
didactic verse
dream poems
dream poetry
dream visions
dreams, interpretation of
drinking songs
drunkenness
elegies
envoys
epilogues
epitaphs
erotic verse
estates literature
evils of the time
evils of the times
executors
fables
fabliaux
fairies
flatterers, against
fornication
fortune
fortune, wheel of
fragments
friends, false
friends, fickleness of
friendship
games
games, courtly
grace
hares
hawking
heaven, joys of
hedging
hell, harrowing of
hell, pains of
historical poems
hunting
hymns, to Christ
hymns, to Virgin Mary
hymns, to saints
impossibilities
ingratitude
inscriptions
instruction, father to son
instruction, philosophical
instruction, religious
instructions, to servants
introductions
kings of England
laments
laments, lovers’
laments, lover’s
laments, sinners’
law, attack on administration of
lechery
legends
legends, of Jesus and Mary
letters
liturgical texts
love
love letters
love lyrics
love lyrics, satiric
love, constancy in
love, courts of
love, divine and human
love, feigned
love, nature of
love, of Christ
love, toward Jesus
love, vicisitudes of
love, vicissitudes of
lovers absence/separation of
lovers, absence/separation of
lovers, addresses to beloved
lovers, faithful
lovers’ lament
lover’s lament
lover’s, lament
lucky and unlucky days
man, nature of
manners, treatises on
marriage
marriage, against
mass, virtues of
medicine
men, treachery of
mercy, plea for
miracles
money
monks
moon, changes of
mortality
mottoes
mutability
mystery plays
nonsense
occasional verse
occupations
old age
old age, praise of
pageant verses
paradoxes
paraphrases
parodies
parodies, of religious texts
parody
patronage, pleas for
penance
penitence
pilgrims/pilgrimage
political poems
political verse
possessions, worldly
prayer, value of
prayers
prayers to Christ
prayers, against peril
prayers, for protection
prayers, for the nation
prayers, of confession
prayers, special occasions
prayers, to Christ
prayers, to God
prayers, to Holy Ghost
prayers, to Jesus
prayers, to Virgin Mary
prayers, to saints
precepts
pride
priesthood
princes, advice to
princes, fall of
printers, comments by
prison/prisoners
prognostications
prognostics
prologues
prologues, to prose texts
prophecies
prophecies, political
proverbs
recipes, domestic
religious observance
ribaldry
riddles
romance
romances
roundels
saints’ days
saints’ lives
satire
scripture texts, Engl. trans. of
scripture texts, paraphrases
scripture, Eng. trans. of
scripture, Engl. trans. of
scripture, translations of
seasons
seasons, of church year
seasons, winter
sermon texts, Gospel
sermons
sermons, verse i
sermons, verse in
servants, instructions to
seven deadly sins
sinner, lament of
sins
sins, deadly
six-line
songs
soul
speech
spring
superstitions, popular
tales
tales, comic
taxation
tongue, advice concerning use of
tongue, desctructive power of
tongue, destructive power of
tournaments
transitoriness of world
transitoriness, of earthly love
transitoriness, of life
transitoriness, of world
translations
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two-line
utilitarian instruction
utilitarian instructions
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vanity, against worldly
virtues
warnings
warnings, to sinners
wealth, dangers of
weather
wine
wisdom
wives, shrewish
women
women, against
women, as speakers/narrators
women, debates concerning
women, erring
women, faithlessness of
women, good qualities of
women, praise of
women, virtues of
women, warnings to
world, farewell to
world, renunciation of
world, untrustworthiness of
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