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 how þat ymagynatyf · in dremeles me tolde, [dremeles] dremes C.] 
                                
                                  Of kynde and of his connynge · and how curteise he is to bestes, [his] COB om.] 
                                
                                  And how louynge he is to bestes · on londe and on water; [is] his C. bestes] briddes W.] 
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                                  Leueth he no lyf · lasse ne more; [Leueth] Leueþ or Leneþ (printed Leneth) W.] 
                                
                                  Þe creatures þat crepen · of kynde ben engendred.
                                
                                  And sitthen how ymagynatif seyde · vix iustus sal|uabitur, [sitthen] COB om. iustus] W om.] 
                                
                                  And whan he had seyde so · how sodeynelich he passed. [14—20. R omits.] 
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                                  ¶ I lay down longe in þis þouȝte · and atte laste I slepte, [down] CB om.] 
                                
                                  And, as cryste wolde, þere come conscience · to conforte me þat tyme, [þat] in þat R.] 
                                
                                  And bad me come to his courte · with clergye sholde I dyne. [me] O om. sholde] shul C.] 
                                
                                  ¶ And for conscience of clergye spake · I come wel þe rather, [come] com WC; cam RB.] 
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                                  And þere I say a maistre · what man he was I neste, [say] seiȝ WCO. neste] so in LRC; nyste WOB.] 
                                
                                  Þat lowe louted · and loueliche to scripture. [louted] a-loutid B.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Conscience knewe hym wel · and welcomed hym faire; [Conscience] Conscien C. wel] B om.] 
                                
                                  Þei wesshen and wypeden · and wenten to þe dyner. [wesshen] wasscheden O; wes|shenden (sic) C. wypeden] wipten B. wenten] wente R; went C. þe] COB om.] 
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                                  Ac pacience in þe paleis stode · in pilgrymes clothes, [Ac] And WC.] 
                                
                                  And preyde mete for charite · for a pore heremyte. [for (1)] par WO; pur B.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Conscience called hym in · and curteisliche seide,

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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 211
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1867-85.

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