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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.)

And many a cruche on his cloke · and keyes of Rome, [a] CR om. cruche] crouche WCOB. keyes] þe cayes R.] And þe vernicle bifore · for men shulde knowe, [knowe] I-knowe R.] And se bi his signes · whom he souȝte hadde. [A page 68] [signes] seynes R.] 531 ¶ Þis folke frayned hym firste · fro whennes he come? [þis] þeise O. frayned] frey|neden B.] ¶ "Fram synay," he seyde · "and fram owre lordes sepulcre; [Fram] Fro COB (twice). synay] Synay (printed Syny) W.] In bethleem and in babiloyne · I haue ben in bothe, [bethleem] Bedlem COB.] In ermonye, in Alisaundre · in many other places. [ermonye] Armonye W. in Alisaundre] so in W; but printed and Alisaundre. in] and in R.] Ȝe may se bi my signes · þat sitten on myn hatte, 536 Þat I haue walked ful wyde · in wete and in drye, And souȝte gode seyntes · for my soules helth." [soules] soule R.] ¶ "Knowestow ouȝte a corseint · þat men calle treuthe? Coudestow auȝte wissen vs þe weye · where þat wy dwelleth?" [Coudestow] koudest þow ROB. auȝte] CB om. þe] þe riȝte B. wy] wyȝte R; he COB.] 540 ¶ "Nay, so me god helpe!" · seide þe gome þanne, [me] mote me B.] "I seygh neuere palmere · with pike ne with scrippe [seygh] ne sauȝ B. scrippe] scrippe wende O.] Axen after hym er · til now in þis place." [Axen] Asken W. til] COB om.] "Peter!" quod a plowman · and put forth his hed, [folio 24b] 544 "I knowe hym as kyndely · as clerke doþ his bokes; [bokes] booke COB.] Conscience and kynde witte · kenned me to his place, And deden me suren hym sikerly · to serue hym for euere, [deden] diden W; dide C. suren hym] suren hem R; swere COB.] Bothe to sowe and to sette · þe while I swynke myghte. 548 I haue ben his folwar · al þis [fifty] wyntre; [[fifty] WCOB; fourty LR; Crowley has fifty. Cf. Pass. VI. 85.] Bothe ysowen his sede · and sued his bestes, [ysowen] I-sowe R; sowen CB; sewe O. sued] fedde CO; feed B.]
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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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