1. An extract from Gower. f. 1, ro. akep.

Beg.

Thow hast thy tyrannye y-wrozt;

Lo, now yt ys sumdel y-bozt!

2. A poem on pity. f. 9, ro.

Beg. [P]itee that I have sogthe so yore ago,

Wyth herte sore and fulle of bisy peyn.

Printed in Chaucer, ed. Urry, p. 421, under the title of, "How pyté is dede and buried in gentyle herte."

3. A lamentation of a lover. f. 11, ro.

Beg. As ofte as syghes ben in herte trewe,

And cristalle teres on dolefulle chekis trylle.

Thirteen stanzas of eight, with the burden, "So ofte and ofter I sygh for yowre sake." Another copy is in MS. Tanner 346.

4. A similar poem. f. 13, ro.

Beg. For lac of sight grete cause I have to pleyne,

Longe absense so sore me werreyth.

In eight-line stanzas, wanting a few lines at the end. Another copy is in MS. Tanner 346.

5. Another poem of the same nature. f. 14, ro.

Beg. I may welle sygh, for grevous ys my payne,

Now to deperte fram yow thys sodenly.

In 3 stanzas of 7, with the burden, "Alas for woo, depertynge hath me

slayne."

6. A love song.

areλ. f. 14, vo.

Beg.

Where y have chosyne, stedefast wolle y be,

Newyre to repente in wylle, thowth, ne dede.

7. The Cuckoo and the Nightingale. f. 15, r°.

Printed in Chaucer, ed. Urry, p. 543. This copy has several variations, and two additional stanzas.

8. Two stanzas, of seven lines each. f. 21, vo.

Beg. As in yow resstyth my joy and comfort,
Youre dissese ys my mortal payne.

9. The Parliament of Birds. f. 22, ro. Printed in Chaucer, ed. Urry, p. 413.

The last leaf is a little torn. At

the end is written, "Explicit Parliamentum Avium quod W. Calverley." A good copy of this poem is in MS. Coll. S. Joh. Oxon. 57.

10. An extract from Gower. f. 36, ro.

Beg. A king whylom was 3onge and wys,
The whyche sette of hijs wyt gret prys.

11. The Parliament of Love. f. 42, r°.

Beg. What so evyr I syng or sey,

My wylle is good too preyse here welle.

12. A roundel on fortune. f. 44, v°.

Printed in Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, vol. i. p. 129.

13. Six lines, beginning," Pees maketh plenté." f. 44, v°.

These lines are generally found at the end of Lydgate's Life of the Virgin Mary. They are printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 315.

14. A ballad. f. 45, ro.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 23.

15. A poem, with the burden, And gyf me lysens to lyve in ease. f. 45, v°.

Beg. As I walkyd apone a day,

To take the eyre of fylde and floure.

Ad calcem. Explicit in veritate. Da michi quod merui. Quod Lewes

tone.

16. Chaucer's Complaint to his Purse. f. 48, ro.

Printed by Urry, p. 549. See also Wanley's note on MS. Harl. 2251, Art. 133.

17. Rough memoranda. f. 48, vo.

18. The Complaint of Annelida, f. 49, ro.

Printed by Urry, p. 432.

19. The Legende of Thisbe of Babylon, f. 52, ro.

Printed by Urry, p. 343. At the end is written, "Explicit Pyramus et Tesbe. Nomen scriptoris Nicholaus plenus amoris."

20. The Complaint of Venus. f. 56, ro.

Printed by Urry, p. 533. A copy of this in MS. Ashmole 59, is entitled, "A balade made by that worthy knight of ser Otes Graunsoun, translated by Chauciers." MS. Fairfax 16.

Savoye in Frenshe, calde
There is another copy in

21. A love song. f. 57, vo.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 169.

22. An inventory of goods at Fyndyrne. f. 58, ro.

23. Incipit littera Cupidinis dei Amoris directa suis subditis amatoribus. f. 59, ro.

Printed in Urry's Chaucer, p. 534. The present copy is differently arranged, and wants several stanzas. It is written in the following order, the lines referring to Urry's edition, ll. 1 to 133, 11. 204 to 273, 11. 343 to 413, and ll. 134 to 196.

24. An extract from Gower. f. 65, ro.

Beg. I rede that thou do right so.

Ha, gude fadur, certus no.

25. Sir Degrevvaunt and theynke and thanke. f. 80, ro.

Printed in this volume, pp. 177-256.

26. The cronekelys of seyntes and kynges of Yngelond. f. 94, ro.

This is a brief chronological list from Brute to Henry VI.

27. An account of the arms borne by the sovereigns of Europe. f. 97, ro.

Beg. The emperour of Allmyene, he beryth goold ane egylle with ij. heedes.

28. La Belle Dame sans mercy. f. 98, ro.

Printed in Urry's Chaucer, p. 422.

29. A ballad of congratulation on the return of a lover. f. 116, ro.

Beg.

Welcome be ye, my sovereine,

The cause of my joyfulle peine.

30. A song on an inconstant mistress. f. 117, vo.

Printed in Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, vol. i. p. 129; and in

the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 24.

31. Four lines of an old ballad. f. 118, ro.

Beg. Sith fortune hath me set thus in this wyse.

32. A love song. f. 118, vo.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 25. At the end is written the name "A. Godwhen," in a scroll.

33. Another love song. f. 118, vo

34. A ballad. f. 119, v°.

Beg. Alas, what planet was y borne undir?

My hert ys set thus veray feythfully.

35. A love song. f. 119, vo.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 25. At the top of this song is written "Croca Dytyn."

36. A ballad. f. 120, ro.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 26. This also bears the name of "A. Godwhen."

37. Another ballad. f. 120, vo.

Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 202.

38. Musical notes. f. 120, vo, and f. 121, ro. 39. A ballad. f. 121, vo.

40. A moral poem. f. 122, vo.

Beg. In fulle grett hevenesse myne hert ys pwyght,
And sadely warpud mony a fowld.

41. A prayer to the Virgin. f. 124, ro.

Beg. Most glorius quene reynyng yn hevene,

Stere of the se, of alle this worldelle lady!

42. A ballad, with the burden, " A wikkyd tonge wole alwey deme amys." f. 125, ro.

Printed in Urry's Chaucer, p. 549.

43. Seven stanzas of seven lines each. f. 128, ro.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth stanzas, are taken from Troilus and Creseide, iii. 303-23, Urry's edition, p. 293.

44. Six lines from Lydgate. f. 129, ro.

Printed in Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 74. 45. An allegorical poem. f. 129, ro.

DESCRIPTION OF THE CAMBRIDGE MANUSCRIPTS.

47. A ballad. f. 132, ro.

Beg. Veryly

And truly}

I schalle nat fayne.

48. A poem against marriage. f. 133, ro.

Beg. Take hede and lerne, lytulle chyld, and see
That tyme passyd wulle not ayene retorne.

49. How myschaunce regnyth in Ingeland. f. 134, vo.
Beg. Now God, that syttyst an hygh in trone,

Help thy peple in here greet nede.

50. A compleint onto dame Fortune. f. 137, vo.

Beg. O thou Fortune, why art thou so inconstaunt

To make this land so to meeve.

51. Four stanzas, entitled, Sanguinus, Colericus, Flemnaticus, Malencolicus. f. 140, vo.

52. A tretise for lavandres. f. 141, ro. Printed in the Reliq. Antiq. vol. i. p. 26.

53. A poem, imperfect at beginning. f. 142, ro.

Beg. Cassamus roos aftre this talkynge,

And took yn counsel Ydore and Betys.

54. A ballad. f. 154, ro.

Beg. A mercy, Fortune, have pitee on me,

And thynke that thou hast done gretely amysse.

55. A moral poem. f. 155, ro.

Beg.

Chaunge not thi freende that thou knowest of oolde,
For eny newe in trust that thou shalt finde.

This is imperfect at the end, the last leaf being torn, and some leaves also are wanting.