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Folio
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Title and/or First Line
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Author
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1, 2
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Folia are missing
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| 1
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3r-5r
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"Thow hast þy tyrannye y wroȝt, The Tale of Tereus from Confessio Amantis Book V, lines 5921-6052 (370 lines missing from the beginning.)
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Gower
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| 2
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5r-7r
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"Nay ffader god y ȝeue a ȝyffte" -Amans discourses against Idleness (Part of the prologue to text no. 3) from Confessio Amantis Book IV, lines 1114-1244
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Gower
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| 3
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7r-10v
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"Off armenye y rede þus" -The Tale of Rosiphelee from Confessio Amantis Book IV, 1245-1466
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Gower
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11r-14v
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Folia are missing
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| 4
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15r-17r
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"Pitee that I haue sogthe so yore ago" -The Complaint unto Pity
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Chaucer
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| 5
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17r-18v
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"As ofte as syghes ben in herte trew" -A complaint in Lydgate's manner.
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| 6
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19r-19v
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"For lac of sight grete cause I haue to pleyne" -'A Complaint for Lack of Sight' in Lydgate's manner
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| 7
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20r
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"I may woll sygh for greuous ys my payne"
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Anon.
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| 8
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20v
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"Where y haue chosyn stedefast woll y be"
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Anon.
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| 9
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20v
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"Ye are to blame to sette yowre hert so sore"
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Anon.
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21
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Stub- Folium is missing
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| 10
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22r-28r
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"The god of loue A benedicite" - The Boke of Cupide (or The Cukoo and the Nightingale.)
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Attributed to Sir John Clanvowe
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| 11
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28v
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"As in yow resstyth my Ioy and comfort"
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Anon.
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| 12
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29r-42v
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"The lyfe so schorte the craft so long to lern" -The Parlement of Foules
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Chaucer
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43, 44
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Folia are missing. 43 is a stub, 44 is absent.
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| 13
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45r-51r
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The Tale of the Three Questions from Confessio Amantis Book I, lines 3067-3425
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Gower
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| 14
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51r-53r
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"What so euyr I syng or sey" (aka Parliament of Love)
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Anon.
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| 15
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53v
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"When fortune list yewe here assent"
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Anon.
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| 16
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53v
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"Pees maketh plente"
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54-55
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Folia are missing
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| 17
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56r
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"What so men seyn"
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Anon.
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| 18
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56v-58v
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"As I walkyd apon a day" -The Seven Deadly Sins
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| 19
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59r
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"To yow my purs and to non othir wyght" -Chaucer's Complaint unto his Purse.
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Chaucer
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59v
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Mid-16th hand has added, "A rekenyng betwene Iohn wylsun and mester fynderne"
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60
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Folium is missing
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| 20
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61r-63v
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"[S]O thirlyd with þe poynt of Remembraunce" - Anelida's Complaint from "Anelida and Arcite"
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Chaucer
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| 21
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64r-67v
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"At babilone whilom fil it þus". The Tale of Thisbe from The Legend of Good Women
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Chaucer
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| 22
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68r-69v
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"There nys so high comfort to my plesaunce" -The Complaint of Venus
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Chaucer
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| 23
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69v
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"My woo full hert this clad in payn"
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Anon.
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70r
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Originally blank, mid-16th hand added an inventory "the parcellys off clothys at fyndyrn"
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70v
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Note on the price of meat
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| 24
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71r-76v
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"Cupido unto whos commaundement" - Lepistre de Cupide
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Hoccleve
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77-80
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| 25
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81r-84r
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"I rede þat þou do noght so" - Amans discourses against Somnolence from Confessio Amantis Book IV, lines 2756–2926.
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Gower
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| 26
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84v-95r
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"Off a cronique in das gon" - Part of the tale of Apollonius of Tyre from Confessio Amantis Book VIII, lines 271-846
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Gower
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95v
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Note: ryght worshypfull ffraunces Crucken ric’ wynkyn
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| 27
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96r-109v
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"Lord gode in trynite" - Sir Degrevant
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Anon.
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| 28
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110r-113r
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"The cronekelys of seyntys and kyngys of yngelond" ( A brief prose chronicle)
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| 29
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113r-113v
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"The Emperour of Allmyen he Beryth goold an Egyll" (Brief heraldic notes in prose on the kings of Europe)
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114-116
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Folia are missing
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| 30
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117r-134v
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"Halfe in a dreme not fully well awaked" - La Belle Dame sans Mercy
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Sir Richard Roos
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| 31
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135r-136r
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"Welcome be ye my souereine"
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Anon.
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| 32
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136v-137r
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"Some tyme y loued as ye may see" Burden: "Whoso lyst to love"
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Anon.
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| 33
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137r
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"Sith fortune hath me set thus in this wyse"
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Anon.
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| 34
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137v
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"Now wold I fayne sum myrthis make"
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| 35
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137v-138r
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"Alas alas and alas why"
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Anon.
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| 36
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138v
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"Alas what planet was y born undir"
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Anon.
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| 37
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138v-139r
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"Continvaunce / Of remembraunce"
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Anon.
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| 38
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139r
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"My self walkyng all Allone"
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Anon.
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| 39
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139v
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"Som tyme y louid so do y yut" Burden: "Up son and merry weather"
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Anon.
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140-142
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Folia are missing
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143r
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Blank
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| 40
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143v-144r
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"ffor to preuente"
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Anon.
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| 41
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144v-145r
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"In ffull grett heuenesse myn hert ys pwyght"
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Anon.
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145v
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Blank
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| 42
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146r
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"Most glorius quene Reynyng yn hevene"
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Anon.
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| 43
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146v
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"O Cryste Jhesu mekely I pray to the"
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Anon.
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| 44
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147r-150r
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"Considre wel wiht euery circumstance"
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Lydgate
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| 45
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150r-151r
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"Ther is no mor dredfull pestelens - (A cento comprising Fall of Princes, Book II, lines 4621-41; Troilus & Criseyde, Book III, lines 302-322; and an original stanza)
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Chaucer, Lydgate, and Anon.
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| 46
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151r
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"The mor I goo the further am I be hynde"
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John Halsham
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| 47
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151r-152r
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"By sapience tempre thy courage" -Seven Wise Counsels
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| 48
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152v-153r
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"Grettere mater of dol an heuynese" -A Complaint, for Lack of Mercy
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Lydgate
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| 49
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153r
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"This ys no lyf alas þat y do lede"
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Anon.
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| 50
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153r-v
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"My woofull herte plonged yn heuynesse"
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Anon.
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| 51
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153v
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"Euer yn one with my dew attendaunce"
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Anon.
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| 52
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153v-154r
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"Yit wulde I nat the causer faryd a-mysse"
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Anon.
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| 53
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154r
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"Veryly/ And truly"
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Anon.
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| 54
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154v
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"Is in my remembrauns non but ye Alone"
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Anon.
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| 55
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155r-156r
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"Take hede and learn lytull chyld and see" -The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage
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Lydgate
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| 56
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156v-159v
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"[N}ow god þat syttyst An hygh in trone" -How myschaunce regnyth in Ingeland; Capitulo xxvij)
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Anon.
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| 57
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159v-161v
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"O þou fortune why art þou so inconstaunt"
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Anon.
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162r
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Blank
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| 58
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162v
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Off yff tis large in loue hayth gret delite" -The Complexions
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163
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Folium is missing (stub)
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| 59
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164r
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"Yee maistresses myne and clenly chamberys" -A Tretise for Laundres
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Lydgate
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164v
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Blank
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165
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The scholar Henry Brandshaw speculated that quire O had an additional bifolium 165/180 because of the abrupt beginning of item 60, so he speculatively added this bifolium when creating his hypothetical collation and paginating the manuscript.
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| 60
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166r-177v
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"Cassamus roos aftre this talkynge" -The 'Alexander-Cassamus' fragment, a translation of lines 1604-1977 of Les Voeux du Paon
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| 61
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178r
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"A mercy fortune haue pitee on me" (A Complaint in the manner of William de la Pole)
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Anon.
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179
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Folium is missing
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180
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See note for folio 165
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| 62
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181r-185v
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"Chaunge not thi ffreende that thou knowest of oolde" - Distichs of Cato
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Benedict Burgh (translator)
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186-188
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Folia are missing
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