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 telle me some token," quod I · "for tyme is þat I wende." [I] we R.] 
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                                  ¶ "Axe þe heighe waye," quod she · "hennes to suffre| [she] studye COB.] 
                                
                                  Bothe-wel-&-wo · ȝif þat þow wolt lerne, [þow wolt] þat wold B (wrongly).] 
                                
                                  And ryde forth by ricchesse · ac rest þow nauȝt þerinne, [ac] but O; and C. þow] OB om.] 
                                
                                  For if þow couplest þe þer-with · to clergye comestow neuere. [clergye] cherche R.] 
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  ¶ And also þe likerouse launde · þat leccherye hatte, [hatte] hattes C; is hote R; hatteþ B.] 
                                
                                  Leue hym on þi left halue · a large myle or more, [hym] it WCOB. or] and CO.] 
                                
                                  Tyl þow come to a courte · kepe-wel-þi-tonge|
                                
                                  Fro-lesynges-and-lither-speche-· and-likerouse-drynkes. [Fro] For C.] 
                                
                                  Þanne shaltow se sobrete · and symplete-of-speche, [sobrete] sobere C. speche] berynge R.] 
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                                  Þat eche wiȝte be in wille · his witte þe to shewe, [A page 128] 
                                
                                  And þus shaltow come to clergye · þat can many þinges.
                                
                                  ¶ Saye hym þis signe · I sette hym to scole, [Saye] Telle B. signe] taken C; tokene B. I] þat y B.] 
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                                  And þat I [grete] wel his wyf · for I wrote hir many bokes, [folio 40]  [[grete WCB] grette LRO.] 
                                
                                  And sette hir to sapience · and to þe sauter glose. [to] B om. glose] glosed B.] 
                                
                                  Logyke I lerned hir · and many other lawes,
                                
                                  And alle þe musouns in mu[si]ke · I made hir to knowe. [þe] W om. musouns] muy|sones R. in] of O. musike] muke in L, but marked for correction; musik WCROB. I] R om.] 
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                                  ¶ Plato þe poete · I put hym fyrste to boke, [hym] W om. fyrste] B om.] 
                                
                                  Aristotle and other moo · to argue I tauȝte. [Aristotle] so in WCRO; Arestotle L. moo] R om. I] I hem B.] 
                                
                                  Grammer for gerles · I garte first wryte, [gerles] gildire C (a confusion between g[erles] and [ch]ildire). wryte] to write W.] 
                                
                                  And bette hem with a baleis · but if þei wolde lerne. [hem] hym RB. baleis] wande C.] 
                                
                                  Of alkinnes craftes · I contreued toles, [contreued] controued C.] 
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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 151
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1867-85.

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