Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

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.)

He blessede hem with hus [breuet] · and blerede hure eye[n], [blessede] bunched I. [breuet IM] blastes F; bulles (prob. repeated by accident) PE; bulle S. eyen F] eyȝen M; yen S; eye PE.] 72 And raghte with hus rageman · rynges and Broches. [And] He M. hus] þat M. rynges—Broches] brochus & rynges FS. and] an P.] Thus ȝe ȝeueþ ȝoure golde · glotones to helpe, [ȝe—ȝoure] now gif ȝe ȝour I; ȝe ȝeuen ȝoure M; gaf good men here F.] And leneþ it to loreles · þat lecherie haunten. [leneþ] lenes I; leued F. loreles] losels I. haunten] hauntes I; hauntede F.] Were þe bisshop blessid · oþer worth boþe hus eren, [Were] But were F. oþer] or IFS; and M. eren] so in SM; eres IF; eyen E.] 76 Hus sele sholde noȝt be sent · in deceit of þe puple. [sholde] ne schulde M; were I. be—of] set so to ceyue I; be sende in the siȝt of E.] Ac it ys noȝt by þe bysshop · þat þe boye precheþ, [Ac] F om.] Þe parsheprest and þe pardoner · parten þe seluer, [A page 5] [þe] Bute þe M. parsheprest] prest F. pardoner] he M. parten] departen M.] Þat poore puple in parshes · sholde haue, yf þei ne were. [78—80. I omits.] [poore—parshes] þe pore peple in þe paressches S; þe pore peple in parshes E; þe pore in the parsche M; þe peple F. yf] hit ȝif M.] Persones & parsheprestes · pleynede to þe bisshop, [& parsheprestes] þer presed fast and I; & prestus F. pleynede] playneþ M.] 81 Þat hure parshen[s] ben poore · sitthe þe pestelence tyme, [parshens] parschones M; pares|schenes S; parischenes E; parisshes I; parische F; parshen P. ben] beþ E; were IM; was F. þe] IMF om.] To haue licence & leue · in londone to dwelle, [To—leue] My lorde, graunte vs license I. in] at IM.] And synge þer for symonye · [for] seluer ys swete. [And] To IM; For to E. þer for] by F. [for IMF] þe wyle P; þe whyles E; whyle S.] 84 Bisshopes and bachilers · boþe maisters and doctors, [boþe] M om. doctors] oþere F.] Þat han cure vnder cryst · and crownynge in tokne, [B page 5] [crownynge] ben crouned M. and—tokne] cristendome to kepe F. in tokne] to kenne S.] Ben chargid with holy churche · charyte to tulie, [Ben] Beþ E; & F. with] wit P; in F.] Þat is, leel loue and lif · a-mong lered and lewed; 88
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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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