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The vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun, by William Langland (about 1362-1393 A. D.)

For hadde þei wist of no wo · wele hadde þei nat knowe; [knowe] i-knowe M; knowen I.] For wot no [wight] what wele is · þat neuere wo suffrede, [wot—wight] no wight wot IT. [wight IFT] wyȝt G; withg M; whit P. what] wat P. neuere wo] wo neuer E.] 212 Ne what is hot hunger · þat hadde neuere defaute. [Ne] And T. what] wat P. hadde neuere] neuere hadde MF.] Ho couþe kyndeliche · with colour discriue, [Ho] For ho F. with] wiþ T; wit (for with) P; with (altered to whit E; white IF; whyȝt G; whijt M. (But with seems the true reading, white being wrongly borrowed from the next line.)] Yf alle þe worlde were whit · oþer swan-whit alle þynges? [Yf] Hif P; but see l. 216. were] where P. oþer—whit] as swan in M.] Yf no nyght [ne] were · no man, as ich leyue, [Yf] For ȝif F. no nyght] ne myȝte (!) T. [ne ITG] PEMF om.; cf. B-text. as] ITG om.] 216 Sholde wite witerly · what day were to mene [I omits from what to wyterly in l. 219. wite] i-wite M. witerly] whiterly P; see l. 218. were] is T.] Ne hadde god suffred of som · oþer þan hym-selue, [god] M om. suffred] suffrede P; i-suffred MT.] He hadde nat wist wyterly · wheþer deþ wer soure oþer sweyte. [wist] i-wist M. wheþer] weþer PE; wher MIG. wer] is T.] For sholde neuere right riche man · þat lyueþ in reste and hele [right] F om. hele] in hele I.] 220 Ywyte what wo is · ne were þe deþ of kynde. [what] what þat F. þe] T om.] So god þat al by-gan · of hus good wil [al by-gan] bigan al IT.] By-cam man of a mayde · mankynde to saue, [mankynde] mankynne M.] And suffrede to be solde · to seo þe sorwe of deyynge, [to (1)] for to F. þe] G om.] 224 The whiche vnknytte[þ] alle care · and comsyng is of reste. [whiche] wiche P. vnknytteþ] vnknettiþ T; vnknyȝteth (sic) I; vnknette M; vnknyt EF; vnknytte P; vn-knitte G; perhaps vnknyt is best, but this is the contracted form of vnknytteþ, so that it is much the same; cf. B-text. and] G om. is of] of his T.]
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The vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, secundum Wit et Resoun, by William Langland (about 1362-1393 A. D.)
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1867-85.

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