PASSUS VI.
[TITLE. Passus Sextus LOB; C adds, de visione; WR add, de visione, vt supra.] Passus Sextus.
"This were a wikked way · but who-so hadde a gyde [A page 74]
That wolde folwen vs eche a fote;" · þus þis folke hem mened.
Quatȝ Perkyn þe plouman · "bi seynt Peter of Rome, [CB omit.]
I haue an half acre to erye · bi þe heighe way; [folio 26]
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Hadde I eried þis half acre · and sowen it after, [eried] hered R. sowen] I-sowen R.]
I [wolde] wende with ȝow · and þe way teche." [wolde WOB] wil LR; wyl C.]
¶ "Þis were a longe lettynge" · quod a lady in a sklayre, [a (3)] retained in W (but omitted in the printed edition). sklayre] Scleyre W; slaire C.]
"What sholde we wommen · worche þere whiles?" [CB omit. þere whiles] so in R; þe whyles O; þe while W.]
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¶ "Somme shal sowe [þe] sakke," quod Piers · "for shedyng of þe whete; [shal] schal R; shul WC; shullen B. [þe WCROB] L om. þe whete] whete CB.]
And ȝe, louely ladyes · with ȝoure longe fyngres, [ladyes] lady B.]
Þat ȝe han silke and sendal · to sowe, whan tyme is, [han] haue WRCB. sendal] sandel WC.]
Chesibles for chapelleynes · cherches to honoure.
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¶ Wyues and wydwes · wolle & flex spynneth,
