... of our surviving manuscripts. ¹⁵ One excellent example is provided by a true Franciscan joculator Dei, William Herebert of the Hereford convent, in his British Library, MS Additional 46919. ¹⁷ Herebert not only composed English poems, mainly translations of Latin...

...-reading experience. The didactic function of lyrical religious poetry is explored further in some of the para-liturgical lyrics of William Herebert and the insertion of lyrics in epistolary tracts of religious guidance by Richard Rolle. didactic verse Godric St lyric On god ureisun of ure lefde...