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.)

                                
                                  Come I to ite, missa est · I holde me yserued. [yserued] serued COB.] 
                                
                                  I nam nouȝte shryuen some tyme · but if sekenesse it make, [if] COB om.] 
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                                  Nouȝt tweies in two ȝere · and þanne vp gesse I schryue me. [schryue] miswritten shcryue in L. me] C om.] 
                                
                                  ¶ I haue be prest and parsoun · passynge thretti wynter, [thretti] twenty B. wynter] yere COB.] 
                                
                                  Ȝete can I neither solfe ne synge · ne seyntes lyues rede, [ȝete] And yet W. solfe] solf B; solue R; solue (printed solne) W.] 
                                
                                  But I can fynde in a felde · or in a fourlonge an hare,
                                
                                  Better þan in beatus vir · or in beati omnes
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                                  Construe oon clause wel · and kenne it to my paroch|ienes. [oon—wel] it clausemel R; me þis clause wel B. my] þi (!) B. parochienes] parisshens WCOB.] 
                                
                                  I can holde louedayes · and here a Reues rekenynge, [and] or R.] 
                                
                                  Ac in canoun ne in þe decretales · I can nouȝte rede a lyne. [CB om. ne in þe] nor in W; ne O.] 
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                                  ¶ Ȝif I bigge and borwe it · but ȝif it be ytailled, [it (1)] auȝt W. ȝif (2)] B om. ytailled] tailled COB.] 
                                
                                  I forȝete it as ȝerne · and ȝif men me it axe [as] also B. ȝerne] soone O. axe] aske R.] 
                                
                                  Sixe sithes or seuene · I forsake it with othes,
                                
                                  And þus tene I trewe men · ten hundreth tymes. [tene I] I tene RB. hundreth] hundred WOB.] 
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                                  ¶ And my seruauntz some tyme · her salarye is bihynde,
                                
                                  Reuthe is to here [þe] rekenynge · whan we shal rede acomptes; [is] it is WB. [þe WCOB] LR om.] 
                                
                                  So with wikked wille and wraththe · my werkmen I paye.
                                
                                  ¶ Ȝif any man doth me a benfait · or helpeth me at nede, [doth] do COB. benfait] bien|fait WC; benfeet RO; bienfet B. helpeth] helpe COB.] 
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Title: 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.)
Author: Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Canvas: Page 80
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1867-85.

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