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.)

                                
                                  Synge ne psalmes rede · ne segge a messe of þe day. [segge] seye WCO; synge B.] 
                                
                                  Ac neuer neyther is blamelees · þe bisshop ne þe chapleyne, [Ac] And WC. ne] and R. þe (2)] C om.] 
                                
                                  For her eyther is endited · and þat of 'ignorancia [her] euere O; her euer B. of] is W.] 
                                
                                  Non excusat episcopos · nec idiotes prestes.' [idiotes] idiotos B.] 
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  ¶ Þis lokynge on lewed prestes · haþ don me lepe fram pouerte, [on] of O. don] doon W; do R. lepe] luppe R.] 
                                
                                  Þe whiche I preyse þere pacyence is · more parfyt þan ricchesse." [þe] CB om. þere] here B. is] B om.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Ac moche more in metynge þus · with me gan one dispute, [L has only a faint paragraph|mark, but it is certain that a new paragraph begins here.] 
                                
                                  And slepynge I seigh al þis · and sithen cam kynde, [folio 48] 
                                
                                  And nempned me by my name · and bad me nymen hede, [nempned] called C. my] COB om. nymen] nemen B.] 
                                  Line 313 
                                
                                  And þorw þe wondres of þis worlde · wytte for to take. [wondres] wordes RB. þis] þe R.] 
                                
                                  And on a mountaigne þat mydelerd hyȝte · as me þo þouȝte, [mydelerd] mydel erde R; myddel erþe W; midilerd B. þo] than C; W om.] 
                                
                                  I was fette forth · by ensaumples to knowe, [fette] fet WC; feet B. en|saumples] ensampel C.] 
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  Þorugh eche a creature and kynde · my creatoure to louye.
                                
                                  I seigh þe sonne and þe see · and þe sonde after, [see] sehe O. sonde] sande C.] 
                                
                                  And where þat bryddes and bestes · by here make[s] þei ȝeden, [And] B om. [makes W] make LCRO; mak B; but see l. 335. þei] WO om.] 
                                
                                  Wylde wormes in wodes · and wonderful foules, [in] and R.] 
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  With flekked fetheres · and of fele coloures. [fetheres] federes R.] 
                                
                                  Man and his make · I myȝte bothe byholde; [and] hadde O. bothe byholde] se bothe R.]

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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 185
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1867-85.

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