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The death of Arthur / Layamon -- Charm against wens -- Winterfall -- White was his naked breast -- The owl and the nightingale: Owl against nightingale -- The proverbs of Alfred: Wealth and Wisdom -- Going to hell / A Lutel Soth Sermun -- Where is Paris and Helene? / Friar Thomas of Hales -- A prisoner's prayer -- Sumer is y-cumen in -- A bidding prayer -- An Easter song -- Of one that is so fari and bright -- Ubi Sunt? -- Sweet Jesu -- The fox and the wolf -- Love is Weal, Love is Wo -- I sigh when I sing -- Hail Mary! -- Undo! -- Wait a little -- Queen of heaven -- Of Jesu Christ I sing -- All too late -- If man him bethought -- The whale / The bestiary -- A student courting -- Wight in the broom -- Lady, I thank thee -- Judas -- Saint Stephen -- The Scots in Berwick -- The English retort -- The battle of Dunbar -- Havelok at Grimsby and Lincoln / Havelok -- A lover's stratagem / Floris and Blauncheflour -- Four wise men on Edward II's reign -- Sir Orfeo -- Now springs the spray -- The annunciation -- World's bliss, have good day! -- The song of Lewes -- Annot and John -- Alysoun -- A maid mars me -- The farmer's complaint -- The lady in the wood -- The white beauty -- Spring -- Blow, northern wind -- Winter wakens all my care -- Now shrinketh rose and lily-flower -- De Clerico et Puella -- When the nightingale sings -- The man in the moon -- An unfortunate lover -- At the crucifixion -- On the passion -- The pound of flesh / Cursor Mundi -- Town against Gown at Oxford / Robert of Gloucester ; from Chronicle -- The dancers of Colbek / Robert Mannyng of Bourne / from Handlyng Synne -- Lollay, lollay, little child -- An Irish satire -- The land of Cockayne -- Bird on briar -- Hymn to the Virgin / William of Shoreham -- The Hawthorn -- The Irish dancer -- The maid of the moor -- His sweetheart slain -- A drunkard -- Halidon Hill / Laurence Minot -- The newly born / from The Pricke of conscience -- My folk, what have I done thee / William Herebert -- Who is this that cometh from Edom / William Herebert -- Christ's coming -- Steadfast cross -- Love is life / Richard Rolle -- All other love is like the moon -- Hand by hand we shall us take -- Choristers training -- Alexander and the Gymnosophists / from Alexander B -- The five joys -- Bruce meets three men with a wether / John Barbour; from Bruce -- Christ's love -- Lovely tear of lovely eye -- King I sit -- The Virgin's song -- The life of this world -- Love -- The poacher / from The Oarlement of the Thre Ages -- pearl -- Jonah is cast into the sea / from Patience -- Gawain and the Lady of the castle / from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Ipomadon plays the fool at Court / from Ipomadon -- Jesu Chirst, me Leman Swete -- Mercy -- Divine love -- Separated lovers -- The field full of fold / William Langland -- Belling the cat / William Langland -- Long will in London / William Langland -- Glutton in the tavern / William Langland -- Our needy neighbours / William Langland -- The trinity / William Langland -- Jove's eagle carries Chaucer into space / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The house of fame -- The eagle converses with Chaucer / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The house of fame -- Old books / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The legend of good women -- Criseyde sees Troilus return from battle / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseyde -- Troilus laments Criseyde's absence / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseyde -- Go, little book / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseyde -- O yonge freshe folkes / Geoffrey Chaucer; from Troilus and Criseyde -- The prioress / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The clerk of Oxford / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The wife of Bath / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The wife's fifth husband / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The reeve / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The mill at Trumpington / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- Three revellers search for death / Geoffrey Chaucer; from The Canterbury tales -- The former age / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Now welcome summer / Geoffrey Chaucer -- To Adam, his scribe / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Truth / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Hide, Absalom, thy gilt tresses / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Complaint of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Merciless beauty / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Ceix and Alceone / John Gower -- Medea's magic / John Gower -- Adrian and Bardus / John Gower -- Prologue to a translation / John Trevisa -- On the death of Edward III -- A warning to beware -- Deo Gracias -- Think on yesterday -- This world fares as a fantasy -- Come out, Lazarus! -- Quia Amore Langueo -- Christ's plea to mankind -- Abide, good men -- Turn again -- Against Friars -- A dream / from Mum and the Sothsegger -- The blacksmiths -- The assumption -- In praise of Winchester -- How should I rule me -- Love undeclared -- God, the port of peace / John Walton -- Anxious thought / Thomas Hoccleve -- Lament for Chaucer and Gower / Thomas Hoccleve -- I have set my heart so high -- The Agincourt Carol -- God speed the plough -- Drinking song -- For the night-mare -- Rats away -- The world so wide -- What tidings / John Audelay -- The fairest flower / John Audelay -- The love of God / John Audelay -- Dread of death / John Audelay --

Like a midsummer rose / John Lydgate -- Froward maymond / John Lydgate -- excerpt from the Epilouge to The fall of princes / John Lydgate -- Prayer to St. Helena -- O man unkind -- I went to death -- Lyarde is an old horse -- With I and E -- The rose that bore Jesu -- The nightingale's song / James I of Scotland; from The Kingis Quatir -- Against the Friars -- The Friars' retort -- Keep the sea / from The libelle of Englyshe Polycye -- An absent lover -- Go heart, hurt with adversity -- Amend me -- The seven sins -- The hare -- Marvels -- By a chapel -- A lover's confession / Charles of Orleans -- Lost / Charles of Orleans -- Adam driven from Eden -- My purse -- Of a rose, a lovely rose -- Truth -- Service is no heritage -- I sing of maiden -- I have a gentle cock -- A last drink -- Adam lay Y-bounden -- I have a young sister -- The sun of grace -- Robin and Gandelein -- A henpecked husband -- Penny is a hardy knight -- My baselard -- Wicked tongues -- Jolly Jankin -- London lickpenny -- On the times -- Holly and his merry men -- Prayer for the journey -- A servant-girl's holiday -- I am forsaken -- The dark lady -- He is fat -- The two mice / Robert Henryson -- This pretty woman -- Lullay, by-by, lullay -- Ay, ay, this is the day -- Lullay, my child -- For sore eyes -- Beat a horn and blow it now -- Care away -- A bachelor's life -- What is this why -- M and A, R and I -- Holly and ivy -- Ivy, chief of trees -- An old man and his wife -- Bring us in good ale -- Doll thy ale -- Chatterers in church -- The months -- Prayer for good dreams -- A woman sat weeping -- Fragment of a love lament -- A schoolboy's lot -- Sometime I loved -- Nonsense -- Letter to M -- To keep the cold wind away -- Diversions for an unhappy princess / from The Squyer of Lowe Degre -- The shires -- Pilgrims to St. James -- Farewell advent / James Ryman -- Mary and her son alone / James Ryman -- The false fox -- The fox and the goose -- At the tavern -- Now is Yule come -- How the ploughman learned his paternoster -- A woman is a worthy thing -- My little pretty mopsy -- The forester -- Corpus Christi carol -- The sparrow-hawk's complaint -- Stag-hunt -- My twelve oxen -- Now is the time of Christmas -- The jolly shepherd Wat -- I am Christmas -- The Boar's Head -- My heart is woe -- Assay a friend -- The juggler and the Baron's daughter -- Good gossips mine -- A call for a song -- Fill the bowl, butler -- A schoolboy's complaint -- Farewell this world -- Roses -- SNATCHES : Canute at Ely -- Godrich's hymn -- Fowles in the frith -- A patient lover -- Regret for the past -- Godith and Godrun -- Alfled spinning -- Lord, thy passion -- sunset -- A shield of red -- Three sad thoughts -- Parted by water -- Frogments of love-song -- At the wrestling -- Laundering -- Lament for Robert de Neville -- The ape -- The wolf -- The wren -- The cat -- Nature -- Bannockburn -- Five evils -- Earth to earth -- Beware Annot! -- The reluctant bride -- A love untrue -- Fortune's wheel -- Three allegorical beasts -- Thou art so lovely -- Drunkenness -- Hope and hap -- Mary, thou Queen -- To Margaret -- A prophecy -- Go, Penny go! -- Tas, anno -- John the miller -- The year 1381 -- When Adam delved -- Proverbial -- A gentleman -- Three executors -- The bald man -- The shepherd of Ashell Down -- Walter Pollard -- Book inscriptions -- At the end of a book of prayers -- The ale-house -- A tale of right nought -- Wives old and young -- Against hasty marriage -- Choosing a wife -- Woman's treachery -- How to win respect -- Advice to a young man -- A maxim -- Reason and faith -- Richard III's reign -- Football -- Peace -- Name riddles -- The nightingale sings --