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... withouten the feet Is right no thyng worthi , And as deed as a dore - tree , But if the dedes folwe . 834 Fides sine operibus mortua est , etc. " For - thi chastité withouten charité Worth cheyned in helle ; It is as lewed as a lampe ...
... withouten the feet Is right no thyng worthi , And as deed as a dore - tree , But if the dedes folwe . 834 Fides sine operibus mortua est , etc. " For - thi chastité withouten charité Worth cheyned in helle ; It is as lewed as a lampe ...
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... withouten gynnyng , And I his goode doughter , And hath yeven me mercy To marie with myselve , And what man be merciful And leelly me love , Shal be my lord and I his leef In the heighe hevene . 938 " And what man taketh Mede , Myn heed ...
... withouten gynnyng , And I his goode doughter , And hath yeven me mercy To marie with myselve , And what man be merciful And leelly me love , Shal be my lord and I his leef In the heighe hevene . 938 " And what man taketh Mede , Myn heed ...
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... withouten pens , As pieces of silver , ~ Rynges or oother richesse , The regratiers to mayntene ; " For my love , " quod that lady , " Love hem echone , And suffre hem to selle Som del ayeins reson . " Salomon the sage A sermon he made ...
... withouten pens , As pieces of silver , ~ Rynges or oother richesse , The regratiers to mayntene ; " For my love , " quod that lady , " Love hem echone , And suffre hem to selle Som del ayeins reson . " Salomon the sage A sermon he made ...
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... Withouten presentz or pens She pleseth wel fewe . " Barons and burgeises She bryngeth in sorwe , And al the comune in care That coveiten lyve in truthe ; 1686 For clergie and coveitise She coupleth togidres . This is 52 THE VISION OF.
... Withouten presentz or pens She pleseth wel fewe . " Barons and burgeises She bryngeth in sorwe , And al the comune in care That coveiten lyve in truthe ; 1686 For clergie and coveitise She coupleth togidres . This is 52 THE VISION OF.
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... Withouten pité , pilour , Povere men thow robbedest ; And bere hire bras at thi bak To Caleis to selle , Ther I lafte with my lord , His lif for to save . I made his men murye , And mournynge lette ; 1743 1754 I batred hem on the bak ...
... Withouten pité , pilour , Povere men thow robbedest ; And bere hire bras at thi bak To Caleis to selle , Ther I lafte with my lord , His lif for to save . I made his men murye , And mournynge lette ; 1743 1754 I batred hem on the bak ...
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alliterative verse ayein beestes bereth witnesse bettre bileve bisshopes bokes catel Caym charité Clergie clerkes comsed Conscience counseil coveitise Crist cristene dede dide Do-bet Do-wel doon dooth drynke erthe fals feith For-thi freres fynde Goddes grace grete hath heighe herte hevene hire hise holy chirche hymself kepe knyght kynde wit kyng leve lewed liketh litel loked lordes lovye lyve maister maketh manere manye Mede mercy mete moore moost myghte na-moore nevere noght noon oother Pacience Passus penaunce peple Piers Ploughman Piers the Ploughman poem povere preest quod Reson Sapience Sarsens Sauter seide seigh Seint seith seye shal sherewe sholde shul sithen sone sothe soule speche suffre swiche synne techeth telleth thanne thee Ther therinne therwith thise thorugh thow thyn thyng togideres trewe truthe tyme werche werkes Whan wite Withouten wolde wole womman woot wroot
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Page 2 - And as I biheeld into the eest An heigh to the sonne, I seigh a tour on a toft Trieliche y-maked, A deep dale bynethe, A dongeon therinne, With depe diches and derke And dredfulle of sighte.
Page 109 - He bar by his syde, And hundred of ampulles On his hat seten, Signes of Synay, And shelles of Galice, And many a crouche on his cloke, And keyes of Rome, And the vernycle bi-fore, For men sholde knowe And se bi hise signes Whom he sought hadde.
Page xxxiii - The poem of Piers Ploughman is peculiarly a national work. It is the most remarkable monument of the public spirit of our forefathers in the middle, or, as they are often termed, dark ages. It is a pure specimen of the English language at a period when it had sustained few of the corruptions which have disfigured it since we have had writers of "Grammars...
Page xlii - Thanne kam ther a Kyng: Knyghthod hym ladde; Might of the communes made hym to regne. And thanne cam Kynde Wit and clerkes he made, For to counseillen the Kyng and the Commune save. The Kyng and Knyghthod and Clergie bothe Casten that the Commune sholde hem [communes] fynde.
Page 118 - But kenne me," quod the knyght, " And by Crist I wole assaye!" " By Seint Poul !" quod Perkyn, " Ye profre yow so faire, That I shal swynke and swete, And sowe for us bothe, And othere labours do for thi love Al my lif tyme, In covenaunt that thow kepe Holy kirke and myselve Fro wastours and fro wikked men That this world destruyeth.
Page xli - And merueylously me mette • as ich may jow telle ; Al the welthe of this worlde • and the woo bothe, Wynkyng as it were • wyterly ich saw hyt, Of tryuthe and of tricherye • of tresoun and of gyle, 12 AI ich saw slepynge • as ich shal jow telle.
Page xliv - The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted by Roberte Crowley dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne. Whereunto are added certayne notes and cotations in the mergyne, geuynge light to the Reader.
Page 10 - For doute of diverse dredes we dar noght wel loke" And if we grucche of his gamen he wol greven us alle — Cracchen us or clawen us and in hise clouches holde. That us lotheth the lif er he late us passe. Mighte we with any wit his wille withstonde, We myghte be lordes olofte and lyven at oure ese'.
Page 1 - I a sheep weere, In habite as an heremite Unholy of werkes, Wente wide in this world Wondres to here ; Ac on a May morwenynge On Malverne hilles Me bifel a ferly, Of fairye me thoghte. I was wery for-wandred, And wente me to reste Under a brood bank By a bournes syde ; And as I lay and lenede, And loked on the watres, I slombred into a slepyng, It sweyed so murye.
Page 211 - ... helle But oonliche love and leautee and my laweful domes. "Gregorie wiste this wel, and wilned to my soule Savacion for soothnesse that he seigh in my werkes. And after that he wepte and wilned me were graunted grace, Withouten any bede biddyng his boone was underfongen, And I saved, as ye may see, withouten syngynge of masses, By love and by lernyng of my lyvynge in truthe, Broughte me fro bitter peyne ther no biddyng myghte