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Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Athelston

Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Avowing of King Arthur

c. 1375-1425
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Awntyrs off Arthure

Late fourteenth century
Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Capystranus

1456-1515
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Carle of Carlisle

1500-1550
Form: Rhyming couplets

Cheuelere Assigne

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain

c. 1400
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Erle of Tolous

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Floris and Blancheflour

c. 1250
Form: Rhyming couplets

Generides

Late fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets, Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Greene Knight

c.1500
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Guy of Warwick

c.1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Havelok the Dane

End of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

c. 1320
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Jeaste of Sir Gawain

Second half of the fifteenth century
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Laud Troy Book

Early fifteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Otuel a Knight

before 1330
Form: Rhyming couplets

Partonope of Blois

c. 1420
Form: Rhyming couplets, Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Richard Coeur de Lion

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Sir Amadace

Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Cleges

Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Late fourteenth century
Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Sir Gowther

c. 1400
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Isumbras

Before 1320
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Landevale

First half of the fourteenth century [?]
Form: Rhyming couplets

Squire of Low Degree (Undo Your Door)

?1520
Form: Rhyming couplets

Sultan of Babylon

Late fourteenth or early fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Titus and Vespasian

1375-1400
Form: Rhyming couplets