The vision and the creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2 |
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ayein baselard ben riche beth bifore bileve Bote charité Chaucer churche clene clerkes comune Conscience coveitise Crist cristene dede deeth dide doon dooth erthe fader feith felawe fend folwede fongen For-thi freres fruyt Goddes Godes Godspel Goost grace grete hath helle herte hevene highte hise holy chirche hymself Jewes Jhesus knyghtes kynde kyng kynnes lawe lered leve loke lond Lord loveth lyve maken manere manye Matth mede meny mercy mete myghte nevere noght oother pacience Pees penaunce peple Piers Ploughman Plowman poverte preestes pres pret Psal puple quath quod reson riche richesse ryght Sarzens seide seigh Seint seith shal sholde sholden sone sorwe sothe soule suffren swich synne telleth Thanne Thauh ther thise thorugh thou thow thre thyng trewe tyme werkes whan Whitaker's text Whou Withouten wolde wole word wroot
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Page 570 - IN olde dayes of the king Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, 6440 All was this lond fulfilled of faerie ; The Elf quene, with hire joly compagnie Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede...
Page 568 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 565 - Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex omnibus viribus tuis, et ex omni mente tua : et proximum tuum sicut teipsum.
Page 541 - The fowrthe artycul thys moste be, That the mayster hym wel be-se That he no bondemon prentys make, Ny for no covetyse do hym take ; For the lord that he ys 'bond to, May fache the prentes whersever he go.
Page 297 - by so no man were greved, Alle the sciences under sonne and alle the sotile craftes I wolde I knewe and kouthe kyndely in myn herte!
Page 514 - Whanne ich yong was," quath ich, "meny yer hennes*, My fader and my frendes founden me to scole, Tyl ich wiste wyterliche' what holy wryt menede*, And what is best for the body, as the Bok telleth, And sykerest* for the soule ; by so10 ich wolle continue.
Page 462 - Maad open marbel In many manner wyse, Knyghtes in ther conisante Clad for the nones ; Alle it semed seyntes Y-sacred opon erthe ; And lovely ladies y-wrought Leyen by her sydes In manye gay garnemens, That weren gold beten. Though the tax of ten yere Were trewely y-gadered, Nolde it nought maken that hous Half, as I trowe. Than cam I to that cloystre, And gaped abouten...
Page 447 - Cryste,' quod Conscience tho, 'I wil bicome a pilgryme, And walken as wyde as al the worlde lasteth, To seke Piers the Plowman that Pryde may destruye, And that freres hadde a fyndyng that for nede flateren And contrepleteth me, Conscience; now kynde me auenge, And sende me happe and hele til I haue Piers the Plowman!
Page 537 - Whil God wes on erthe And wondrede wyde, Whet wes the resoun Why he nolde ryde? For he nolde no grom To go by ys syde, Ne grucchyng of no gedelyng To chaule ne to chyde.
Page 513 - And lymes to labore with, and lovede wel fare, And no dede to do bote drynke and to slepe. In hele and in unite on me aposede'; Romynge in remembraunce thus Reson me aratede*.