The Vision of William Concerning Piers the PlowmanClarendon Press, 1881 - 216 pages |
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atte Ayenbite of Inwyt azein baselard Book of Days C-text called Chaucer Christ Church comsed comune conscience conseille Crede dede Do-bet edition Edward Edward III euere fals For-pi forto Freres friars Glossary gode hath haue heuene hire Icel kepe king kynde Langley Latin leue Liber Albus loke London lordes loue lyue manere means Mede Meed mercy Moso-Goth myzte neuere nouzte owre p. s. pt panne pardoun Pass Passus pere Piers Plowman Piers the Plowman Ploughman plural poem prest Prol Prologue quod pieres resoun Richard II rizte sapience saue seide seyde seynt shal shew shulde somme sone spelt subj synne taketh Tale Thanne thou togideres treuthe tyme Vulgate wende whan who-so William of Palerne wolde worche word wote Wright wrouzte þanne þat þe kynge þei þere þow
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Page 132 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's...
Page 106 - When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits, SECOND SONG.
Page 112 - Sicut enim corpus sine spiritu mortuum est, ita et fides sine operibus mortua est.
Page 105 - Ye shall have rumney and malmesyne, Both ypocrasse, and vernage wyne, Mount rose and wyne of Greke, Both algrade, and respice eke, Antioche, and bastarde, Pyment also, and garnarde, Wyne of Greke, and muscadell, Both clare, pyment, and Rochell; The reed your stomake to defye, And pottes of Osey set you by.
Page 221 - BOOK lS NOT RETURNED TO THE LlBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW.
Page 110 - In the Master of Oxford's Catechism, written early in the fifteenth century, and printed in Reliquiae Antiquae, vol. ip 231, we have the following question and answer — C. Where be the anjelles that God put out of heven, and bycam devilles ? M. Som into hell, and som reyned in the skye, and som in the erth, and som in waters and in wodys.
Page 108 - He shall be your Judas, and you shall be his elder-tree to hang on ;' Every Man out of Hum. iv. 4. See Nares. On the other hand, we read that ' the Arbor Judte is thought to be that whereon Judas hanged himself, and not upon the eldertree, as it is vulgarly said ;
Page 69 - And cast on me my clothes, yclouted and hole, My cokeres and my coffes, for colde of my nailles, And hange myn hoper at myn hals, in stede of a scrippe. A busshel of bredcorne brynge me...
Page 110 - In caelum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, sedebo in monte testamenti, in lateribus aquilonis. Ascendam super altitudinem nubium ; similis ero Altissimo.
Page 139 - ... under cover and colour of good and lawful trading ; which kind of contract, the more subtly to deceive the people, they call ' exchange ' or