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.)
"Welcome, [wye!] go and wasshe · þow shalt sitte sone." [[wye WO] weye R; wy C; L wye, altered to wyel ȝe; B om.]Line 32 ¶ Þis maister was made sitte · as for þe moste worthy, [as] and COB.]And þanne clergye and conscience · and pacience cam after. [And] COB om.]¶ Pacience and I · were put to be macches, [put] pote R. be macches] ben mettes R.]And seten by owre selue · at a syde-borde. [seten] sitten C. a] þe W]Line 36 ¶ Conscience called after mete · and þanne cam scripture,And serued hem þus sone · of sondry metes manye, [hem] hym R.]Of austyn, of ambrose · of alle þe foure euangelistes;
Edentes & bibentes que apud eos sunt.
[of alle] and of W. Edentes] Edentes (printed Edentis) W.]Ac þis maister ne his man · no manere flesshe eten, [Ac] And C. ne] nor W.]Line 40 Ac þei ete mete of more coste · mortrewes and potages; [Ac] And C. ete mete] hadde metes R. mortrewes] mortreux C.]Of þat men mys-wonne · þei made hem wel at ese. [wel] B om.]Ac her sauce was ouer soure · & vnsauourely grounde, [Ac] And C. ouer] euere COB. grounde] y-grounde CB.]In a morter, post-mortem · of many bitter peyne, [many] many a W. peyne] peynes O.]Line 44 But if þei synge for þo soules · and wepe salt teres:
Vos qui peccata hominum comeditis, nisi pro eis lacrimas & orationes effunderitis, ea que in delicijs comeditis, in tormentis euometis.
[þo] the COB. and wepe] with many R. lacrimas] lacrimis C. L has in the margin—contra sacerdotes.]Conscience ful curteisly þo · comaunded scripture [ful] L has for altered to ful; ful WR; COB om.]Bifor pacience bred to brynge · and me þat was his macche. [folio 53b] [macche] make COB; mete R.]He sette a soure lof to-for vs · and seyde, "agite peni|tenciam," [lof] lafe C. to-for] to-forn W.]Line 48
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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.,
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