Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has edited and written on the Piers Plowman tradition, is author of Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England (2001), and co-edited Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale (2005) with Ann M. Hutchison.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The manuscript 2. Previous editions of Digby lyrics 3. Critical reception 4. Date 5. Religious sensibilities 6. Social temper 7. Poetics 8. Provenance Appendix: Parallels between the Digby lyrics and the Macaronic sermons in MS Bodley 649Abbreviations and select bibliographyThe lyrics from MS Digby 102 1. Loue God and drede 2. Mede and muche thank 3. Treuth, reste and pes 4. Lerne say wele, say litel, or say no3t 5. Wyt and Wille 6. To lyf bodyly is perylous 7. Man, knowe thy self, and lerne to dye 8. A good makynge of iour delaye 9. With God of loue and pes 3e trete 10. A good steryng to heuenward 11. God & man ben made atte on 12. God kepe oure kyng and saue the croune 13. Dede is worchyng 14. Man be warre er the be woo 15. The descryung of mannes membres 16. A remembraunce of Lij folyes 17. Loue that God loueth 18. The declarying of religioun 19. Untitled 20. Untitled 21. A lernyng to good leynge 22. Knowe thy self and thy God 23. Of the sacrament of the altere 24. The Lessouns of the DirigeGlossary Index of proper names

Helen Barr demonstrates that the Digby poems are worthy of serious study and offers a model of how to read unhistorical writing historically. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 ... this is very much an edition to be welcomed. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 Barr is to be commended for her production of a fine edition of fascinating, layered, and subtle verse collection, and this new volume will greatly aid teaching and encourage new research. Years Work in English

Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has edited and written on the Piers Plowman tradition, is author of Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England (2001), and co-edited Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale (2005) with Ann M. Hutchison.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The manuscript 2. Previous editions of Digby lyrics 3. Critical reception 4. Date 5. Religious sensibilities 6. Social temper 7. Poetics 8. Provenance Appendix: Parallels between the Digby lyrics and the Macaronic sermons in MS Bodley 649Abbreviations and select bibliographyThe lyrics from MS Digby 102 1. Loue God and drede 2. Mede and muche thank 3. Treuth, reste and pes 4. Lerne say wele, say litel, or say no3t 5. Wyt and Wille 6. To lyf bodyly is perylous 7. Man, knowe thy self, and lerne to dye 8. A good makynge of iour delaye 9. With God of loue and pes 3e trete 10. A good steryng to heuenward 11. God & man ben made atte on 12. God kepe oure kyng and saue the croune 13. Dede is worchyng 14. Man be warre er the be woo 15. The descryung of mannes membres 16. A remembraunce of Lij folyes 17. Loue that God loueth 18. The declarying of religioun 19. Untitled 20. Untitled 21. A lernyng to good leynge 22. Knowe thy self and thy God 23. Of the sacrament of the altere 24. The Lessouns of the DirigeGlossary Index of proper names

Helen Barr demonstrates that the Digby poems are worthy of serious study and offers a model of how to read unhistorical writing historically. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 ... this is very much an edition to be welcomed. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 Barr is to be commended for her production of a fine edition of fascinating, layered, and subtle verse collection, and this new volume will greatly aid teaching and encourage new research. Years Work in English

Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has edited and written on the Piers Plowman tradition, is author of Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England (2001), and co-edited Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale (2005) with Ann M. Hutchison.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The manuscript 2. Previous editions of Digby lyrics 3. Critical reception 4. Date 5. Religious sensibilities 6. Social temper 7. Poetics 8. Provenance Appendix: Parallels between the Digby lyrics and the Macaronic sermons in MS Bodley 649Abbreviations and select bibliographyThe lyrics from MS Digby 102 1. Loue God and drede 2. Mede and muche thank 3. Treuth, reste and pes 4. Lerne say wele, say litel, or say no3t 5. Wyt and Wille 6. To lyf bodyly is perylous 7. Man, knowe thy self, and lerne to dye 8. A good makynge of iour delaye 9. With God of loue and pes 3e trete 10. A good steryng to heuenward 11. God & man ben made atte on 12. God kepe oure kyng and saue the croune 13. Dede is worchyng 14. Man be warre er the be woo 15. The descryung of mannes membres 16. A remembraunce of Lij folyes 17. Loue that God loueth 18. The declarying of religioun 19. Untitled 20. Untitled 21. A lernyng to good leynge 22. Knowe thy self and thy God 23. Of the sacrament of the altere 24. The Lessouns of the DirigeGlossary Index of proper names

Helen Barr demonstrates that the Digby poems are worthy of serious study and offers a model of how to read unhistorical writing historically. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 ... this is very much an edition to be welcomed. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 110, No. 1 Barr is to be commended for her production of a fine edition of fascinating, layered, and subtle verse collection, and this new volume will greatly aid teaching and encourage new research. Years Work in English