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... a fair lady , the personi- fication of " holy church , " approaches , to instruct the dreamer . She explains to him the meaning of the different objects which had presented themselves to his view , xvi INTRODUCTION .
... a fair lady , the personi- fication of " holy church , " approaches , to instruct the dreamer . She explains to him the meaning of the different objects which had presented themselves to his view , xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... Holy Church now quits the dreamer , who is left to observe what is taking place amid the crowd in the field . ( Passus II . ) They all pay their court to lady Mede , who , by the intermediation of Cyvyle , or the law , is be- trothed in ...
... Holy Church now quits the dreamer , who is left to observe what is taking place amid the crowd in the field . ( Passus II . ) They all pay their court to lady Mede , who , by the intermediation of Cyvyle , or the law , is be- trothed in ...
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... holy chirche and hii Holde bettre togidres , The mooste meschief on molde Is mountynge wel faste . Ther preched a pardoner , As he a preest were ; Broughte forth a bulle With many bisshopes seles , And seide that hymself myghte ...
... holy chirche and hii Holde bettre togidres , The mooste meschief on molde Is mountynge wel faste . Ther preched a pardoner , As he a preest were ; Broughte forth a bulle With many bisshopes seles , And seide that hymself myghte ...
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... holy writ , Who so wole it rede : Væ terræ ubi puer rex est ! etc. For may no renk ther reste have For ratons by nyghte ; 383 The while he caccheth conynges , He coveiteth noght youre caroyne , But fedeth hym al with venyson : Defame we ...
... holy writ , Who so wole it rede : Væ terræ ubi puer rex est ! etc. For may no renk ther reste have For ratons by nyghte ; 383 The while he caccheth conynges , He coveiteth noght youre caroyne , But fedeth hym al with venyson : Defame we ...
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... holy writ shewed ; And asked hire on the heighe name , Er she thennes yede , What she were witterly That wissed me so faire . 608 " Holi chirche I am , " quod she , " Thow oughtest me to knowe ; I underfeng thee first , And the feith ...
... holy writ shewed ; And asked hire on the heighe name , Er she thennes yede , What she were witterly That wissed me so faire . 608 " Holi chirche I am , " quod she , " Thow oughtest me to knowe ; I underfeng thee first , And the feith ...
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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