Note 27 — Chapter X · POETIC ACHIEVEMENT IN VERNACULAR
Reading edition
Lecoy de la Marche quotes from a versified morality on the Blessed Virgin a passage exemplifying simple use of linking refrain.
Ne trova pas l’angeles vostre cuer vain ne vole, Quand il semma an vos la saintisme parole; Ne li fiz Deu meismes ne vos tint pas a fole, Quant il sor totes femmes vos retint a s’escole. A sor vos retint li verais gloriox ... La chaire française au moyen âge, 284.
Thus it is used in the stanzaic Morte Arthur.
... Lancelot sayd: “yiff I sayd nay, I were wele worthy to be brent. Brent to bene worthy I were” ... 3696-3698.