The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.15.17 (W)

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.15.17 (W) – Passus 10and Color Facsimile of Richard Rolle's <title>Form of Living – Passus 10William LanglandEdited by Thorlac Turville-Petre and Hoyt N. DugganAssociate Editors: M. Gail Duggan and Catherine A. Farley Graduate Research Assistants Michael Blum, Stephen C. Martin, and John Ivor Carlson. Computer Consultants and ProgrammersOludotun Akinola, Karen Dietz, Susan Gants, Kirk V. Hastings, Susan Munson, Beth Nowviskie, Daniel Pitti, John Price-Wilkin, Thornton Staples, and John Unsworth.University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, Mich. ISBN: 0-472-00275-9

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2000 Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.17

late 14th or early 15th century Source copy consulted: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.15.17

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LatinFrenchGerman2000 cataloger Jackie Shieh New header created Passus .vijus.septimus de visione vt supra TReuþe herde telle her-of . and to Piers he sente To maken his teme . and tilien þe erþe And purchaced hym a pardoun . a pena & a culpa For hym and for hise heires . for euere-moore after And bad hym holde hym at home . and erien hise leyes And alle þat holpen hym to erye . to sette or to sowe Or any ooþer mestier . þat myȝte Piers auaille Pardon wiþ Piers Plowman . truþe haþ ygraunted ¶ Kynges and knyȝtes . þat kepen holy chirche And riȝtfully in Remes . rulen þe peple Han pardon þoruȝ purgatorie . to passen ful liȝtly Wiþ Patriarkes and prophetes . in paradis to be felawe ¶ Bysshopes yblessed . if þei ben as þei sholde Legistres of boþe lawes . þe lewed þer-wiþ to preche And in as muche as þei mowe . amenden alle synfulle Arn peres wiþ þe Apostles . þis pardon Piers sheweþ And at þe day of dome . at þe heiȝe deys sitte ¶ Marchauntz in þe margyne . hadde manye yeres Ac noon A pena & a culpa . þe pope nolde hem graunte For þei holde noȝt hir halidayes . as holy chirche techeþ And for þei swere by hir soule . and so god moste hem helpe Ayein clene Conscience . hir catel to selle ¶ Ac vnder his secret seel . truþe sente hem a lettre That þei sholde buggen boldely . þat hem best liked And siþenes selle it ayein . and saue þe wynnyng And amende Mesondieux þer-myd . and myseise folk helpe And wikkede weyes . wightly amende And do boote to brugges . þat tobroke were Marien maydenes . or maken hem Nonnes Pouere peple and prisons . fynden hem hir foode ¶ And sette Scolers to scole . or to som oþere craftes Releue Religion . and renten hem bettre And I shal sende yow my-selue . Seint Michel myn Archangel That no deuel shal yow dere . ne fere yow in youre deying And witen yow fro wanhope . if ye wol þus werche And sende youre soules in saufte . to my Seintes in Ioye ¶ Thanne were Marchauntz murie . manye wepten for ioye And preiseden Piers þe Plowman . þat purchaced þis bulle ¶ Men of lawe leest pardon hadde . þat pleteden for Mede For þe Sauter saueþ hem noȝt . swiche as take ȝiftes And nameliche of Innocentz . þat noon yuel ne konneþ Super innocentem munera non accipies ¶ Pledours sholde peynen hem . to plede for swiche and helpe Princes and prelates . sholde paie for hire trauaille A Regibus & principibus erit merces eorum ¶ Ac many a Iustice and Iurour . wolde for Iohan do moore Than pro dei pietate . leue þow noon ooþer ¶ Ac he þat spendeþ his speche . and spekeþ for þe pouere W.7.48:nota That is Innocent and nedy . and no man apeireþ W.7.49: nota Conforteþ hym in þat caas . wiþ-outen coueitise of ȝiftes W.7.50: nota And sheweþ lawe for oure lordes loue . as he it haþ ylerned W.7.51: nota Shal no deuel at his deeþ-day . deren hym a myte That he ne worþ saaf and his soule . þe Sauter bereþ witnesse ¶ Domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo ¶ Ac to bugge water ne wynd . ne wit ne fir þe ferþe Thise foure þe fader of heuene . made to þis foold in commune Thise ben truþes tresores . trewe folk to helpe That neuere shul wexe ne wanye . wiþ-outen god hym-selue ¶ Whan þei drawen on to deye . and Indulgences wolde haue Hir pardon is ful petit . at hir partyng hennes That any Mede of mene men . for hir motyng takeþ Ye legistres and lawieres . holdeþ þis for truþe That if þat I lye . Mathew is to blame For he bad me make yow þis . and þis prouerbe me tolde Quodcumque vultis vt faciant vobis homines . facite eis W.7.65:nota ¶ Alle libbynge laborers . þat lyuen wiþ hir hondesW.7.66-69: A vertical pen mark appears at the end of this line and the three following lines, which we take to represent nota. W.7.66:nota That treweliche taken . and treweliche wynnen W.7.67: nota And lyuen in loue and in lawe . for hir lowe hertes W.7.68: nota Haueþ þe same absolucion . þat sent was to Piers W.7.69: nota ¶ Beggeres ne bidderes . ne beþ noȝt in þe bulle But if þe suggestion be sooþ . þat shapeþ hem to begge For he þat beggeþ or bit . but if he haue nede W.7.72:nota He is fals wiþ þe feend . and defraudeþ þe nedy W.7.73:nota And also he bigileþ þe gyuere . ageynes his wille For if he wiste he were noȝt nedy . he wolde ȝyue þat anoþer That were moore nedy þan he . so þe nedieste sholde be holpe Caton kenneþ me þus . and þe clerc of stories Cui des videto . is Catons techyng W.7.78:nota ¶ And in þe stories he techeþ . to bistowe þyn almesse Sit elemosina tua in manu tua donec studes cui des W.7.80: The nota appears inside the box to the right of the line. ¶ Ac Gregory was a good man . and bad vs gyuen alle W.7.81:nota That askeþ for his loue . þat vs al leneþ W.7.82:nota Non eligas cui miseriaris nefortene forte pretereas illum qui meretur accipereW.7.83: The end of the box is cropped in the right margin, though no text appears to have been lost. Quia incertum est pro quo deo magis placeas W.7.84:nota ¶ For wite ye neuere who is worþi . ac god woot who haþ nede W.7.85:nota In hym þat takeþ is þe trecherie . if any treson walke W.7.86:nota For he þat yeueþ yeldeþ . and yarkeþ hym to reste And he þat biddeþ borweþ . and bryngeþ hym-self in dette For beggeres borwen euere-mo . and hir borgh is god almyȝty To yelden hem þat yeueþ hem . and yet vsure moore ¶ Quare non dedisti pecuniam meam ad mensam vt ego veniam cum vsuris exigere ¶ For-þi biddeþ noȝt ye beggeres . but if ye haue gret nede For who-so haþ to buggen hym breed . þe book bereþ witnesse He haþ ynouȝ þat haþ breed ynouȝ . þouȝ he haue noȝt ellis ¶ Satis diues est qui non indiget pane W.7.95:nota ¶ Lat vsage be youre solas . of seintes lyues redyng The book banneþ beggerie . and blameþ hem in þis manere ¶ Iunior fui etenim senui & non vidi iustum derelictum nene[c]W.7.98: W alone reads ne. Other B manuscripts have nec. semen eius &c ¶ For ye lyue in no loue . ne no lawe holde Manye of yow ne wedde noȝt . þe womman þat ye wiþ deele But as wilde bestes with wehee . worþen vppe and werchen And bryngen forþ barnes . þat bastardes men calleþ Or þe bak or som boon . he brekeþ in his youþe And siþþe goon faiten with youre fauntes . for euere-moore after Ther is moore mysshapen peple . amonges þise beggeres W.7.105:nota Than of alle manere men . þat on þis moolde walkeþ W.7.106: nota And þei þat lyue þus hir lif . mowe loþe þe tyme W.7.107:nota That euere þei were men wroȝt . whan þei shal hennes fare W.7.108: nota Ac olde men and hore . þat helplees ben of strengþe And wommen wiþ childe . þat werche ne mowe Blynde and bedreden . and broken hire membres That taken þise myschiefs mekeliche . as Mesels and oþere Han as pleyn pardon . as þe Plowman hym-selue For loue of hir lowe hertes . oure lord haþ hem graunted Hir penaunce and hir Purgatorie . here on þis erþe ¶ Piers quod a preest þoo . þi pardon moste I rede For I wol construe ech clause . and kenne it þee on englissh ¶ And Piers at his preiere . þe pardon vnfoldeþ And I bihynde hem boþe . biheld al þe bulle And in two lynes it lay . and noȝt a leef moore And was writen riȝt þus . in witnesse of truþe ¶ Et qui bona egerunt ibunt in vitam eternam W.7.122:nota Qui vero mala in ignem eternumW.7.123: To the right of this line is a smudged scribble. W.7.123:nota ¶ Peter quod þe preest þoo . I kan no pardon fynde But dowel and haue wel . and god shal haue þi soule W.7.125:nota And do yuel and haue yuel . hope þow noon ooþer W.7.126:nota But after þi deeþ-day . þe deuel shal haue þi soule W.7.127:nota ¶ And Piers for pure tene . pulled it atweyne And seide Si ambulauero in medio vmbre mortis W.7.129:nota non timebo mala quoniam tu mecum es ¶ I shal cessen of my sowyng quod Piers . & swynke noȝt so harde Ne aboute my bely ioye . so bisy be namoore Of preieres and of penaunce . my plouȝ shal ben her-after And wepen whan I sholde slepe . þouȝ whete breed me faille ¶ The prophete his payn eet . in penaunce and in sorwe ¶ By þat þe Sauter seith . so dide othere manye That loueþ god lelly . his liflode is ful esy ¶ Fuerunt michi lacrime mee panes die ac nocte W.7.137:nota ¶ And but if luc lye . he lereþ vs by foweles We sholde noȝt be to bisy . aboute þe worldes blisse Ne soliciti sitis  he seiþ in þe gospel And sheweþ vs by ensamples . vs-selue to wisse The foweles in þe feld . who fynt hem mete at wynter W.7.142:nota Haue þei no gerner to go to . but god fynt hem alle W.7.143:nota ¶ What quod þe preest to Perkyn . Peter as me þynkeþ Thow art lettred alitela litel . who lerned þee on boke ¶ Abstynence þe Abbesse quod Piers . myn / a / . b / . c . / me tauȝte And Conscience cam afterward . and kenned me muche moore ¶ Were þow a preest quod he . þou myȝtest preche where þou sholdest As diuinour in diuinite . wiþ Dixit insipiens to þi teme ¶ Lewed lorel quod Piers . litel lokestow on þe bible On Salomons sawes . selden þow biholdest Ecce derisores & iurgia cum eis ne crescant &c ¶ The preest and Perkyn . opposeden eiþer ooþer And I þoruȝ hir wordes awook . and waited aboute And seiȝ þe sonne in þe South . sitte þat tyme Metelees and moneilees . on Maluerne hulles Musynge on þis metels . and my wey ich yede MAny tyme þis metels . haþ maked me to studie Of þat I seiȝ slepynge . if it so be myȝte And also for Piers þe Plowman . ful pencif in herte And which a pardon Piers hadde . al þe peple to conforte And how þe preest inpugned it . wiþ two propre wordes Ac I haue no sauour in Songewarie . for I se it ofte faille Caton and Canonistres . counseillen vs to leue To sette sadnesse in Songewarie . for sompnia ne cures ¶ Ac for þe book bible . bereþ witnesse How Daniel diuined . þe dreem of a kyng That was Nabugodonosor . nempned of clerkes ¶ Daniel . seide sire kyng . þi dremels bitokneþ That vnkouþe knyȝtes shul come . þi kyngdom to cleyme Amonges lower lordes . þi lond shal be departed And as Daniel diuined . in dede it fel after The kyng lees his lordshipe . and lower men it hadde ¶ And Ioseph mette merueillously . how þe moone and þe sonne And þe elleuene sterres . hailsed hym alle ¶ Thanne Iacob iugged . Iosephes sweuene Beau fitz quod his fader . for defaute we shullen I my-self and my sones . seche þee for nede ¶ It bifel as his fader seide . in Pharaoes tyme That Ioseph was Iustice . Egipte to loke It bifel as his fader tolde . hise frendes þere hym souȝte And al þis makeþ me . on þis metels to þynke ¶ And how þe preest preued . no pardon to dowel And demed þat dowel . Indulgences passed Biennals and triennals . and Bisshopes lettres And how dowel at þe day of dome . is digneliche vnderfongen And passeþ al þe pardon . of Seint Petres cherche ¶ Now haþ þe pope power . pardon to graunte þe peple Wiþ-outen any penaunce . to passen in-to heuene This is oure bileue . as lettred men vs techeþ ¶ Quodcumque ligaueris super terram . erit ligatum & in celis &c ¶ And so I leue leelly . lordes forbode ellis That pardon and penaunce . and preieres doon saue Soules þat haue synned . seuen siþes dedly Ac to truste to þise triennals . trewely me þynkeþ Is noȝt so siker for þe soule . certes as is dowel ¶ For-þi I rede yow renkes . þat riche ben on þis erþe Vp-on trust of youre tresor . triennals to haue Be ye neuer þe bolder . to breke þe .x.ten hestes And namely ye maistres . Meires and Iugges That haue þe welþe of þis world . and for wise men ben holden To purchace yow pardon . and þe popes bulles At þe dredful dome . whan dede shulle rise And comen alle tofore crist . acountes to yelde How þow laddest þi lif here . and hise lawes keptest And how þow didest day by day . þe doom wole reherce A poke-ful of pardon þere . ne prouincials lettres Theiȝ ye be founde in þe fraternite . of alle þe foure ordres And haue Indulgences double-fold . but if dowel yow helpe I sette youre patentes and youre pardon . at one pies hele ¶ For-þi I counseille alle cristene . to crie god mercy . And Marie his moder . be oure meene bitwene That god gyue vs grace here . er we go hennes Swiche werkes to werche . while we ben here That after oure deeþ-day . dowel reherce At þe day of dome . we dide as he hiȝtePassus viijusoctauus de visione & primus de Dowel Thus yrobed in russet . I romed aboute Al a somer seson . for to seke dowel And frayned ful ofte . of folk þat I mette If any wiȝt wiste . wher dowel was at Inne And what man he myȝte be . of many man I asked ¶ Was neuere wiȝt as I wente . þat me wisse kouþe Where þis leode lenged . lasse ne moore Til it bifel on a Friday . two freres I mette Maistres of þe Menours . men of grete witte I hailsed hem hendely . as I hadde y-lerned And preide hem par charite . er þei passed ferþer If þei knewe any contree . or costes as þei wente Where þat dowel dwelleþ . dooþ me to witene For þei be men of þis moolde . þat moost wide walken And knowen contrees and courtes . and many kynnes places Boþe princes paleises . and pouere mennes cotes And dowel and doyuele . wher þei dwelle boþe ¶ Amonges vs quod þe Menours . þat man is dwellynge And euere haþ as I hope . and euere shal her-after ¶ Contra quod I as a clerc . and comsed to disputen And seide hem sooþly . Sepcies in die cadit Iustus W.8.21:nota ¶ Seuene siþes seiþ þe book . synneþ þe rightfulle And who-so synneþ I seide . dooþ yuele as me þynkeþ And dowel and doyuele . mowe noȝt dwelle togideres Ergo he nys noȝt alwey . amonges yow freres He is ouþerwhile ellis-where . to wisse þe peple ¶ I shal seye þee my sone . seide þe frere þanne How seuen siþes þe sadde man . on a day synneþ By a forbisne quod þe frere . I shal þee faire shewe Lat brynge a man in a boot . amydde þe brode watre W.8.30:nota The wynd and þe water . and þe boot waggyng W.8.31:nota Makeþ þe man many a tyme . to falle and to stonde W.8.32:nota For stonde he neuer so stif . he stumbleþ if he meue W.8.33:nota Ac yet is he saaf and sound . and so hym bihoueþ W.8.34:nota For if he ne arise þe raþer . and rauȝte to þe steere W.8.35:nota The wynd wolde wiþ þe water . þe boot ouer-þrowe W.8.36:nota And þanne were his lif lost . þoruȝ lachesse of hym-selue W.8.37:nota ¶ And þus it falleþ quod þe frere . by folk here on erþe W.8.38:nota The water is likned to þe world . þat wanyeþ and wexeþ W.8.39:nota The goodes of þis grounde arn lik . to þe grete wawes W.8.40:nota That as wyndes and wedres . walkeþ aboute W.8.41:nota The boot is likned to oure body . þat brotel is of kynde W.8.42:nota That þoruȝ þe fend and þe flessh . and þe frele worlde W.8.43:nota Synneþ þe sadde man . a day seuen siþes W.8.44:nota ¶ Ac dedly synne doþ he noȝt . for dowel hym kepeþ And þat is charite þe champion . chief help ayein synne For he strengþeþ menW.8.47: W alone reads men; other B manuscripts have man. to stonde . and steereþ mannes soule And þouȝ þe body bowe . as boot dooþ in þe watre W.8.48:nota Ay is þi soule saaf . but if þow wole þi-selueW.8.49:W alone reads þow wole þi-selue; most other B manuscripts read thiself woll, although CrS have thou wylt thyselfe and M has þou þiseluen wole. W.8.49:nota Do a deedly synne . and drenche so þi soule God wole suffre wel þi sleuþe . if þi-self likeþ For he yaf þee a yeresȝyue . to yeme wel þi-selue W.8.52:nota And þat is wit and free wil . to euery wiȝt a porcion W.8.53:nota To fleynge foweles . to fisshes and to beestes W.8.54:nota Ac man haþ moost þer-of . and moost is to blame W.8.55:nota But if he werche wel þer-wiþ . as dowel hym techeþ W.8.56:nota ¶ I haue no kynde knowyng quod I . to conceyuen alle youre wordes Ac if I may lyue and loke . I shal go lerne bettre ¶ I bikenne þee crist quod he . þat on cros deyde And I seide þe same . saue yow fro myschaunce And ȝyue yow grace on þis grounde . goode men to worþe ANd þus I wente wide-wher . walkyng myn one By a wilde wildernesse . and by a wodes side Blisse of þe briddes . brouȝte me aslepe W.8.64:nota And vnder a lynde vp-on a launde . lened I a stounde To lyþe þe layes . þo louely foweles made Murþe of hire mouþes . made me þer to slepleslepe W.8.67:nota The merueillouseste metels . mette me þanne That euer dremed wiȝt . in world as I wene ¶ A muche man as me þouȝte . and lik to my-selue Cam and called me . by my kynde name ¶ What artow quod I þo . þat þow my name knowest ¶ That þow woost wel quod he . and no wiȝt bettre ¶ Woot I what þow art . þouȝt seide he þanne I haue sued þee þis seuen yeer . seye þow me no raþer ¶ Artow þouȝt quod I þoo . þow koudest me wisse Where þat dowel dwelleþ . and do me þat to knowe ¶ Dowel and dobet . and dobest þe þridde quod he W.8.78:nota Arn þre faire vertues . and ben noȝt fer to fynde W.8.79:nota Who-so is trewe of his tunge . and of his two handes W.8.80:nota And þoruȝ his labour . or þoruȝ his land . his liflode wynneþ W.8.81:nota And is trusty of his tailende . takeþ but his owene W.8.82:nota And is noȝt dronkelewe ne dedeynous . dowel hym folweþ W.8.83:nota ¶ Dobet dooþ riȝt þus . ac he dooþ muche moore He is as lowe as a lomb . and louelich of speche W.8.85:nota ¶ And helpeþ alle men . after þat hem nedeþ The bagges and þe bigirdles . he haþ to-broke hem alle That þe Erl Auarous . heeld and hise heires And þus wiþ Mammonaes moneie . he haþ maad hym frendes And is ronne to Religion . and haþ rendred þe bible And precheþ to þe peple . Seint Poules wordes ¶ Libenter suffertis insipientes . cum sitis ipsi sapientes ¶ And suffreþ þe vnwise . wiþ yow for to libbe W.8.93:nota And wiþ glad wille dooþ hem good . for so god yow hoteþ ¶ Dobest is aboue boþe . and bereþ a bisshopes crosse Is hoked on þat oon ende . to halie men fro helle A pik is on þat potente . to putte adown þe wikked That waiten any wikkednesse . dowel to tene And dowel and dobet . amonges hem han ordeyned To crowne oon to be kyng . to rulen hem boþe That if dowel or dobet . dide ayein dobest Thanne shal þe kyng come . and casten hem in Irens And but if dobest bede for hem . þei to be þer for euere ¶ Thus dowel and dobet . and dobest þe þridde Crouned oon to be kyng . to kepen hem alle And to rule þe Reme . by hire þre wittes And noon ooþer wise . but as þei þre assented ¶ I þonked þoȝt þo . þat he me þus tauȝte Ac yet sauoreþ me noȝt þi seying . I coueite to lerne How dowel . dobet . and dobest . doon among þe peple ¶ But wit konne wisse þee quod þoȝt . where þo þre dwelle Ellis woot I noon þat kan . þat now is alyue ¶ Thoȝt and I þus . þre daies we yeden Disputyng vp-on dowel . day after ooþer And er we were war . wiþ wit gonne we mete He was long and lene . lik to noon ooþer Was no pride on his apparaille . ne pouerte neiþer W.8.117:nota Sad of his semblaunt . and of softe chere W.8.118:nota I dorste meue no matere . to maken hym to Iangle But as I bad þoȝt þoo . be mene bitwene And pute forþ som purpos . to preuen hise wittes What was Dowel fro dobet . and dobest from hem boþe ¶ Thanne þoȝt in þat tyme . seide þise wordes Where dowel . dobet . and dobest ben in londe Here is wil wolde wite . if wit koude teche hym And wheiþer he be man or womman . þis man fayn wolde aspie And werchen as þei þre wolde . thus is his ententePassus .xus.decimus de visione . et ijussecundus de Dowel Thanne hadde wit a wif . was hote dame Studie That lene was of lere . and of liche boþe She was wonderly wroþ . þat wit me þus tauȝte And al starynge dame Studie . sterneliche lokedW.10.4: W alone reads loked; other B manuscripts have seide. ¶ Wel artow wis quod she to wit . any wisdomes to telle To flatereres or to fooles . þat frenetike ben of wittes And blamed hym and banned hym . and bad hym be stille Wiþ swiche wise wordes . to wissen any sottes And seide noli mittere man . margery perles Among hogges þat han . hawes at wille Thei doon but dryuele þer-on . draf were hem leuere Than al þe precious perree . þat in paradis wexeþ I seye it by swiche quod she . þat sheweþ by hir werkes That hem were leuere lond . and lordshipe on erþe Or richesse or rentes . and reste at hir wille Than alle þe sooþ sawes . þat Salomon seide euere ¶ Wisdom and wit now . is noȝt worþ a kerse W.10.17:nota But if it be carded wiþ coueitise . as cloþeres kemben hir wolle W.10.18:nota Who-so kan contreue deceites . and conspire wronges W.10.19:nota And lede forþ a loue-day . to lette wiþ truþe W.10.20:nota He þat swiche craftes kan . to counseil is cleped W.10.21:nota Thei lede lordes wiþ lesynges . and bilieþ truþe W.10.22:nota ¶ Iob þe gentile . in hise gestes witnesseþ W.10.23:nota That wikked men þei welden . þe welþe of þis worlde W.10.24:nota And þat þei ben lordes of ech a lond . þat out of lawe libbeþ W.10.25:nota ¶ Quare impij viuunt bene est omnibus qui preuaricantur & inique agunt ¶ The Sauter seiþ þe same . by swiche þat doon ille ¶ Ecce ipsi peccatores habundantes in seculo obtinuerunt diuicias ¶ Lo seiþ holy lettrure . whiche beþ þise sherewes W.10.29:nota Thilke þat god gyueþ moost . leest good þei deleþ W.10.30:nota And moost vnkynde to þe commune . þat moost catel weldeþ W.10.31:nota ¶ Que perfecisti destruxerunt . iustus autem &c ¶ Harlotes for hir harlotrie . may haue of hir goodes W.10.33:nota And Iaperis and Iogelours . and Iangleris of gestes W.10.34:nota ¶ Ac he þat haþ holy writ . ay in his mouþe W.10.35:nota And kan telle of Tobye . and of twelue Apostles W.10.36:nota Or prechen of þe penaunce . þat Pilat wikkedlyW.10.37: The first letters of wikkedly appear to be written over an erasure. W alone reads wikkedly; Cr reads falsely; other B manuscripts omit. wroȝte W.10.37:nota To Iesu þe gentile . þat Iewes todrowe W.10.38:nota Litel is he loued . þat swich a lesson sheweþ W.10.39:nota Or daunted or drawe forþ . I do it on god hym-selue W.10.40:nota ¶ But þoo þat feynen hem foolis . and wiþ faityng libbeþ W.10.41:nota Ayein þe lawe of oure lord . and lyen on hem-selue W.10.42:nota Spitten and spuen . and speke foule wordes W.10.43:nota Drynken and dreuelen . and do men for to gape W.10.44:nota Likne men and lye on hem . þat leneþ hem no ȝiftes W.10.45:nota Thei konne namoore mynstralcie . ne Musik men to glade W.10.46:nota Than Munde þe Millere . of Multa fecit deus Ne were hir vile harlotrye . haue god my trouþe Sholde neuere kyng ne knyȝt . ne Chanon of Seint Poules Ȝyue hem to hir yeresȝyue . þe ȝifte of a grote ¶ Ac murþe and mynstralcie . amonges men is nouþe W.10.51:nota Lecherie . losengerye . and losels tales W.10.52:nota Glotonye and grete oþes . þis murþe þei louyeþ W.10.53:nota ¶ Ac if þei carpen of crist . þise clerkes and þise lewed W.10.54:nota At mete in hir murþe . whan Mynstrals beþ stille W.10.55:nota Thanne telleþ þei of þe Trinite . a tale ouþer tweye W.10.56:nota And bryngen forþ a balled reson . and taken Bernard to witnesse W.10.57:nota And puten forþ a presumpcion . to preue þe soþe W.10.58:nota Thus þei dryuele at hir deys . þe deitee to knowe W.10.59:nota And gnawen god wiþ þe gorge . whanne hir guttes fullen W.10.60:nota ¶ Ac þe carefulle may crie . and carpen at þe yate W.10.61:nota Boþe afyngred and a-furst . and for chele quake W.10.62:nota Is þer noon to nyme hym neer . his anoyW.10.63: W alone reads anoy; other B manuscripts have noy. to amende W.10.63:nota But hunten hym as an hound . and hoten hym go þennes W.10.64:nota Litel loueþ he þat lord . þat lent hym al þat blisse W.10.65:nota That þus parteþ wiþ þe pouere a parcelle whan hym nedeþ W.10.66:nota Ne were mercy in meene men . moore þan in riche W.10.67:nota Mendinauntz metelees . myȝte go to bedde W.10.68:nota God is muche in þe gorge . of þise grete maistres W.10.69:nota Ac amonges meene men . his mercy and hise werkes W.10.70:nota And so seiþ þe Sauter . I haue seiȝen it ofte W.10.71:nota Ecce audiuimus eam in effrata inuenimus eam in campis silueW.10.72: There is evidence of a letter cropped at the end, perhaps &c as in Hm. ¶ Clerkes and oþere kynnes men . carpen of god faste And haue hym muche in þe mouþ . ac meene men in herte ¶ Freres and faitours . han founde swiche questions W.10.75:nota To plese wiþ proude men . syn þe pestilence tyme W.10.76:nota And prechen at Seint Poules . for pure enuye of clerkes W.10.77:nota That folk is noȝt fermed in þe feiþ . ne free of hire goodes W.10.78:nota Ne sory for hire synnes . so is pride woxen W.10.79:nota In Religion and in al þe Reme . amonges riche and pouere W.10.80:nota That preieres haue no power . þe pestilence to lette W.10.81:nota And yet þe wrecches of þis world . is noon ywar by ooþer W.10.82:nota Ne for drede of þe deeþ . wiþ-drawe noȝt hir pride W.10.83:nota Ne beþ plenteuouse to þe pouere . as pure charite wolde W.10.84:nota But in gaynesse and in glotonye . forglutten hir good hem-selue W.10.85:nota And brekeþ noȝt to þe beggere . as þe book techeþ W.10.86:nota Frange esurienti panem tuum &c W.10.87:nota And þe moore he wynneþ and welt . welþes and richesse W.10.88:nota And lordeþ in londes . þe lasse good he deleþ W.10.89:nota ¶ Tobye telleþ yow noȝt so . takeþ hede ye riche How þe book bible . of hym bereþ witnesse ¶ Si tibi sit copia habundanter tribue Si autem exiguum illud impertiri stude libenter ¶ Who-so haþ muche spende manliche . so seiþ Tobye W.10.94:nota And who-so litel weldeþ . rule hym þer-after W.10.95:nota For we haue no lettre of oure lif . how longe it shal dure W.10.96:nota Swiche lessons lordes sholde . louye to here W.10.97:nota And how he myȝte moost meynee . manliche fynde W.10.98:nota ¶ Nouȝt to fare as a fiþelere or a frere . for to seke festes Homliche at oþere mennes houses . and hatien hir owene Elenge is þe halle . ech day in þe wike ¶ Ther þe lord ne þe lady . likeþ noȝt to sitte Now haþ ech riche a rule . to eten by hym-selue W.10.103:nota In a pryuee parlour . for pouere mennes sake W.10.104:nota Or in a chambre wiþ a chymenee . and leue þe chief halle W.10.105:nota That was maad for meles . men to eten Inne W.10.106:nota And al to spare to spende . þat spille shal anoþer W.10.107:nota ¶ I haue yherd heiȝe men . etynge at þe table Carpen as þei clerkes were . of crist and of hise myȝtes And leyden fautes vp-on þe fader . þat formede vs alle And carpen ayein clerkes . crabbede wordes Why wolde oure Saueour suffre . swich a worm in his blisse That bigiled þe womman . and þe man after Thoruȝ whiche wiles and wordes . þei wente to helle And al hir seed for hir synne . þe same deeþ suffrede ¶ Here lyeþ youre lore . þise lordes gynneþ dispute Of þat þe clerkes vs kenneþ . of crist by þe gospel Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris &c ¶ Why sholde we þat now ben . for þe werkes of Adam Roten and to-rende . Reson wolde it neuere Vnusquisque portabit onus suum &c ¶ Swiche motyues þei meueW.10.122: The reading could as well be mene. . þise maistres in hir glorie And maken men in mysbileue . þat muse muche on hire wordes Ymaginatif her-afterward . shal answere to hirW.10.124: W alone reads hir; other B manuscripts have youre. purpos ¶ Austyn to swiche Argueres . telleþ þis teme Non plus sapere quam oportet ¶ Wilneþ neuere to wite . why þat god wolde Suffre Sathan . his seed to bigile Ac bileueþ lelly . in þe loore of holy chirche And preie hym of pardon . and penaunce in þi lyue And for his muche mercy . to amende yow here For alle þat wilneþ to wite . þe weyes of god almyȝty I wolde his eiȝe were in his ers . and his fynger after That euere wilneþ to wite . why þat god wolde Suffre Sathan . his seed to bigile Or Iudas to þe Iewes . Iesu bitraye Al was as þow woldest . lord yworshiped be þeW.10.137: W alone reads þe; other B manuscripts have þow. And al worþ as þow wolt . what-so we dispute ¶ And þo þat vseþ þise hauylons . to blende mennes wittes What is dowel fro dobet . þatW.10.140: W alone reads þat; other B manuscripts have now. deef mote he worþe Siþþe he wilneþ to wite . whiche þei ben boþe But if he lyue in þe lif . þat longeþ to dowel For I dar ben his bolde borgh . þat dobet wole he neuere Theiȝ dobest drawe on hym . day after ooþer ¶ And whan þat wit was ywar . what dame Studie tolde He bicom so confus . he kouþe noȝt loke And as doumb as deeþ . and drouȝ hym arere And for no carpyng I . kouþe after . ne knelyng to þe grounde I myȝte gete no greyn . of his grete wittes But al lauȝynge he louted . and loked vp-on Studie In signe þat I sholde . bisechen hire of grace ¶ And whan I was war of his wille . to his wif gan I loute And seide mercy madame . youre man shal I worþe As longe as I lyue . boþe late and raþe For to werche youre wille . þe while my lif dureþ Wiþ þat ye kenne me kyndely . to knowe what is dowel ¶ For þi mekenesse man quod she . and for þi mylde speche I shal kenne þee to my Cosyn . þat Clergie is hoten He haþ wedded a wif . wiþ-Inne þise sixe monþes ¶ Is sib toW.10.160: W alone reads to; other B manuscripts have to þe. seuen artz . Scripture is hir name They two as I hope . after my techyng Shullen wissen þee to dowel . I dar it vnder-take ¶ Thanne was he al-so fayn . as fowel of fair morwe And gladder þan þe gleman . þat gold haþ to ȝifte And asked hire þe heighe wey . where þat Clergie dwelte And tel me som tokene quod I . for tyme is þat I wende ¶ Aske þe heighe wey quod she . hennes to Suffre Boþe wele and wo . if þat þow wolt lerne And ryd forþ by richesse . ac rest þow noȝt þer-Inne For if þow couplest þee þer-wiþ . to clergie comestow neuere ¶ And also þe likerouse launde . þat lecherie hatte Leue it on þi left half . a large myle or moore Til þow come to a court . kepe wel þi tunge Fro lesynges and liþer speche . and likerouse drynkes ¶ Thanne shaltow se Sobretee . and Sympletee of speche That ech wight be in wille . his wit þee to shewe And þus shaltow come to Clergie . þat kan manye þynges ¶ Seye hym þis signe . I sette hym to Scole And þat I grete wel his wif . for I wroot hire manye bokes And sette hire to Sapience . and to þe Sauter glose Logyk I lerned hire . and manye oþere lawes And alleW.10.182: W alone reads alle; other B manuscripts have alle þe. Musons in Musik . I made hire to knowe ¶ Plato þe poete . I putteW.10.183: W alone reads putte; other B manuscripts have putte hym. first to boke Aristotle and oþere mo to argue I tauȝte ¶ Grammer for girles . I garte first to write And bette hem wiþ a baleys . but if þei wolde lerne ¶ Of alle kynne craftes . I contreued tooles Of Carpentrie of kerueres . and compased Masons And lerned hem leuel and lyne . þouȝ I loke dymme ¶ Ac Theologie haþ tened me . ten score tymes The moore I muse þer-Inne . þe mystier it semeþ W.10.191:nota And þe depper I deuyne . þe derker me it þynkeþ W.10.192:nota It is no Science for-soþe . for to sotile Inne A ful leþi þyng it were . if þat loue nere Ac for it leteþW.10.195: W alone reads leteþ; most other B manuscripts have let. best bi loue . I loue it þe bettre For þere þat loue is ledere . þer lakked neuere grace W.10.196:nota Loke þow loue lelly . if þee likeþ dowel W.10.197:nota For do-bet and do-best . ben of loues kynne ¶ In ooþer Science it seiþ . I seiȝ it in Catoun Qui simulat verbis vel corde est fidus amicus Tu quoque fac simile . sic ars deluditur arte ¶ Who-so gloseþ as gylours doon . go me to þe same W.10.202:nota And so shaltow fals folk . and feiþlees bigile W.10.203:nota This is Catons kennyng . to clerkes þat he lereþ ¶ Ac Theologie techeþ noȝt so . who-so takeþ yeme He kenneþ vs þe contrarie . ayein Catons wordes For he biddeþ vs be as breþeren . and bidde for oure enemys W.10.207:nota And louen hem þat lyen on vs . and lene hem whan hem nedeþ W.10.208:nota And do good ayein yuel . god hym-self it hoteþ W.10.209:nota Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum ad omnes . maxime autem ad domesticos fidei ¶ Poul preched þe peple . þat parfitnesse louede To do good for goddes loue . and gyuen men þat asked W.10.212:nota And namely to swiche . as suwen oure bileue And alle þat lakkeþ vs or lyeþ . oure lord techeþ vs to louye W.10.214:nota And noȝt to greuen hem þat greueþ vs . god hym-self forbad it W.10.215:nota Michi vindictam & ego retribuam ¶ For-þi loke þow louye . as longe as þow durest W.10.217:nota For is no science vnder sonne . so souereyn for þe soule W.10.218:nota ¶ Ac Astronomye is an hard þyng . and yuel for to knowe Geometrie and Geomesie . so gynful of speche W.10.220:nota Who-so þynkeþ werche with þo two . þryueþ ful late W.10.221:nota For sorcerie is þe Souereyn book . þat to þo Sciences bilongeþ ¶ Yet ar þer fibicches in forceres . of fele mennes makyng Experimentz of Alkenamye . þe peple to deceyue If þow þynke to dowel . deel þer-wiþ neuere ¶ Alle þise Sciences I my-self . sotilede and ordeynede And founded hem formest . folk to deceyue Tel Clergie þis tokene . and Scripture after To counseille þee kyndely . to knowe what is dowel ¶ I seide grant mercy madame . and mekely hir grette And wente wightly awey . wiþ-oute moore lettyng And til I com to clergie . I koude neuere stynte And grette þe goode man . as Studie me tauȝte And afterwardes þe wif . and worshiped hem boþe And tolde hem þe tokenes . þat me tauȝt were Was neuere gome vp-on þis ground . siþ god made þe worlde Fairer vnderfongen . ne frendlier ateseat ese Than my-self sooþly . soone so he wiste That I was of wittes hous . and wiþ his wif dame Studie ¶ I seide to hem sooþly . þat sent was I þider Do-wel and dobet . and dobest to lerne ¶ It is a commune lyf quod Clergie . on holy chirche to bileue Wiþ alle þe articles of þe feiþ . þat falleþ to be knowe And þat is to bileue lelly . boþe lered and lewed On þe grete god . þat gynnyng hadde neuere And on þe sooþfast sone . þat saued man-kynde Fro þe dedly deeþ . andW.10.247: W alone reads and; other B manuscripts have and þe. deueles power Thoruȝ þe help of þe holy goost . þe which goost is of boþe Thre persones . ac noȝt in plurel nombre For al is but oon god . and ech is god hym-selue Deus pater / deus filius / deus spiritus sanctus God þe fader / god þe sone . god holy goost of boþe Makere of man-kynde . and of beestes boþe ¶ Austyn þe olde . her-of made bokes And hym-self ordeyned . to sadde vs in bileue Who was his Auctour . alle þe foure Euaungelistes And Crist cleped hym-self so . þe Euaungelistes bereþ witnesseW.10.257: After this line WHmCr omit the line Ego in patre & pater in me est & qui videt me . videt et patrem meum (as in L). ¶ Alle þe clerkes vnder crist . ne koude þis assoille But þus it bilongeþ to bileue . to lewed þat willen dowel For hadde neuere freke fyn wit . þe feiþ to dispute Ne man hadde no merite . myȝte it ben ypreued ¶ Fides non habet meritum vbi humana racio prebet experimentum Thanne is dobet to suffre . for þe soules helþe Al þat þe book bit . bi holi cherches techyng . And þat is man bi þy myȝt . for mercies sake Loke þow werche it in werk . þat þi word sheweþ W.10.266:nota Swich as þow semest in siȝte . be in assay y-founde Appare quod es vel esto quod appares ¶ And lat no-body be . by þi beryng bigiled W.10.269:nota But be swich in þi soule . as þow semest wiþ-oute W.10.270:nota ¶ Thanne is dobest to be boold . to blame þe gilty Syþenes þow seest þi-self . as in soule clene W.10.272:nota Ac blame þow neuere body . and þow be blame-worþy W.10.273:nota ¶ Si culpare velis . culpabilis esto cauebisW.10.274: A fifteenth-century hand has added nota. Dogma tuum sordet . cum te tua culpa remordet ¶ God in þe gospel . greuously repreueþ Alle þat lakkeþ any lif . and lakkes han hem-selue ¶ Qui consideras festucam in oculo fratris tui . trabem in oculo tuo &c ¶ Why meuestow þi mood for a mote . in þi broþeres eiȝe W.10.279:nota Siþen a beem in þyn owene . ablyndeþ þi-selueW.10.280: As at line 10.274, a fifteenth-century hand has added nota and has drawn a line linking 10.279 and 10.280. W.10.280:nota Eice primo trabem in oculo tuo &c Which letteþ þee to loke . lasse ouþer moore W.10.282:nota ¶ I rede ech a blynd bosard . do boote to hym-selue For Abbotes and for Priours . and for alle manere prelates As persons and parissh preestes . þat preche sholde and teche Alle maner men to amenden . bi hire myȝtes ¶ This text was told yow . to ben ywarW.10.287: W alone reads ywar; other B manuscripts have war. er ye tauȝte That ye were swiche as ye seyeW.10.288: W alone reads seye; most other B manuscripts have seyde. . to salue wiþ oþere For goddes word wolde noȝt be lost . for þat wercheþ euere If it auailled noȝt þe commune . it myȝte auaille yow-selue ¶ Ac it semeþ now sooþly . to þe worldes siȝte That goddes word wercheþ noȝt . on lered ne on lewed But in swich a manere . as Marc meneþ in þe gospel Dum cecus ducit cecum ambo in foueam cadunt W.10.294:nota ¶ Lewed men may likne yow þus . þat þe beem liþ in youre eiȝen And þe festu is fallen . for youre defaute ¶ In alle maner men . þoruȝ mansede preestes The bible bereþ witnesse . þat al þe folk of Israel Bittre abouȝte þe giltes . of two badde preestes Offyn and Fynes . for hir coueitise Archa dei myshapped . and Ely brak his nekke ¶ For-þi ye Correctours claweþ her-on . and correcteþ first yow-selue And þanne mowe ye safly seye . as Dauid made in þe Sauter Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis arguam te & statuam contra faciem tuam ¶ And thanne shul burel clerkes ben abasshed . to blame yow or to greue And carpen noȝt as þei carpe now . neW.10.306: W alone reads ne; F reads to; other B manuscripts have and. calle yow doumbe houndes Canes non valentes latrare And drede to wraþe yow in any word . youre werkmanship to lette And be prester at youre preiere . þan for a pound of nobles And al for youre holynesse . haue ye þis in herte ¶ In scole þere is scorn . but if a clerk wol lerne W.10.311:nota And gret loue and likyng . for ech of hem loueþ ooþer W.10.312:nota ¶ Ac now is Religion a rydere . a Romere abouteW.10.313: W alone reads aboute; other B manuscripts have by stretes. W.10.313:nota A ledere of louedayes . and a lond buggere W.10.314:nota A prikere on a palfrey . fro Manere to Manere W.10.315:nota AnheepAn heep of houndes at his ers . as he a lord were W.10.316:nota And but if his knaue knele . þat shal his coppe brynge W.10.317:nota He loureþ on hym and askeþ hym . who tauȝte hym curteisie W.10.318:nota ¶ Litel hadde lordes to doon . to ȝyue lond from hire heires To Religiouse þat han no rouþe . þouȝ it reyne on hir Auters W.10.320:nota ¶ In many places þer þei ben personsW.10.321: W alone reads ben persons; other B manuscripts have persouns ben. . be hem-self ateseat ese W.10.321:nota Of þe pouere haue þei no pite . and þat is hir charite W.10.322:nota Ac þei leten hem as lordes . hire londes lyen so brode W.10.323:notaAc þer shal come ¶ Ac þer shal come a kyng . and confesse yow ReligiousesW.10.324: This is the line which Skeat called "this famous prediction, so curiously fulfilled in the time of Henry the Eighth" (Rev. Walter W. Skeat, ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, in Three Parallel Texts (London: Oxford University Press, 1886), p. 69. The second nota may be in the hand of a sixteenth-century reader excited by the accuracy of Langland's "prediction." W.10.324:nota And bete yow as þe bible telleþ . for brekynge of youre rule W.10.325:nota And amende Monyals . Monkes and Chanons W.10.326:nota And puten toW.10.327: W alone reads to; other B manuscripts have hem to. hir penaunce . Ad pristinum statum ire W.10.327:nota And Barons wiþ Erles beten hem . þoruȝ Beatus virres techyng W.10.328:nota That hir barnes claymen . and blame yow foule W.10.329:nota ¶ Hij in curribus & hij in equis ipsi obligati sunt &c ¶ And þanne Freres in hir fraytour . shul fynden a keye W.10.331:nota Of Costantyns cofres . in which is þe catel W.10.332:nota That Gregories godchildren . han yuele despended W.10.333:nota ¶ And þanne shal þe Abbot of Abyngdoun . and al his issue for euereW.10.334: There is a scribble (possibly a <d>) to the right of this line. W.10.334:nota Haue a knok of a kyng . and incurable þe wounde W.10.335:nota ¶ That þis worþ sooþ seke ye . þat ofte ouer-se þe bible Quomodo cessauit exactor quieuit tributum . contriuit dominus baculum impiorum . et virgam dominancium cedencium plaga insanabili ¶ Ac er þat kyng come . Caym shal awake But dowel shal dyngen hym adoun . and destruye his myȝte ¶ Thanne is dowel and do-bet . quod I . dominus and knyȝthode ¶ I nel noȝt scorne quod Scripture . but if scryueynes lye Kynghod ne knyȝthod . by noȝt I kan awayte Helpeþ noȝt to heueneward . oone heris ende Ne richesse riȝt noȝt . ne Reautee of lordes Poul preueþ it impossible . riche men to haue heuene W.10.345:nota Salomon seiþ also . þat siluer is worst to louye W.10.346:nota Nichil iniquius quam amare pecuniam And Caton kenneþ vs to coueiten it . nauȝt but as nede techeþ Dilige denarium set parce dilige formam And Patriarkes and prophetes . and Poetes boþe Writen to wissen vs . to wilne no richesse And preiseden pouerte with pacience . þe Apostles bereþ witnesse That þei han Eritage in heuene . and by trewe riȝte Ther riche men no riȝt may cleyme . but of ruþe and grace ¶ Contra quod I by crist . þat kan I repreue And preuen it by Peter . and by Poul boþe That is baptized beþ saaf . be he riche or pouere ¶ That is in extremis quod Scripture . amonges Sarzens & Iewes They mowen be saued so . and þat is oure bileue That an vncristene in þat caas . may cristen an heþen And for his lele bileue . whan he þe lif tyneþ Haue þe heritage of heuene . as any man cristene ¶ Ac cristene men wiþ-oute moore . maye noȝt come to heuene For þat crist for cristene men . deide and confermed þe lawe That who-so wolde and wilneþ . wiþ crist to arise Si cum Christo surexistis &c ¶ He sholde louye and lene . and þe lawe fulfille That is loue þi lord god . leuest abouen alle And after alle cristene creatures . in commune ech man ooþer And þus bilongeþ to louye . þat leueþ beW.10.370: W alone reads be; other B manuscripts have to be. saued And but we do þus in dede . atW.10.371: W alone reads at; other B manuscripts have er, ar, or. þe day of dome It shal bisitten vs ful soure . þe siluer þat we kepen And oure bakkes þat moþe-eten be . and seen beggeris go naked Or delit in wyn and wilde fowel . and wite any in defaute For euery cristene creature . sholde be kynde til ooþer W.10.375:nota And siþen heþen to helpe . in hope of amendement ¶ God hoteþ heiȝe and lowe . þat no man hurte ooþer And seiþ slee noȝt þat semblable is . to myn owene liknesse But if I sende þee som tokene . and seiþ Non mecaberisW.10.379: The scribe has written the more obvious necaberis and then altered this to mecaberis by adding a minim in the red ink used for the box. Other B manuscripts reading necaberis or necabis are CrYLOC2 and G (altered). See John Alford's discussion of the textual variations in Piers Plowman: A Guide to the Quotations (Binghamton: MRTS, 1992): 68-69. Is slee noȝt but suffre . and al for þe beste W.10.380:nota For I shal punysshe hem in purgatorie . or in þe put of helle Ech man for hise mysdedes . but mercy it lette This is a long lesson quod I . and litel am I þe wiser Where dowel is or dobet . derkliche ye shewen Manye tales ye tellen . þat Theologie lerneþ And þat I man maad was . and my name yentred In þe legende of lif . longe er I were Or ellis vnwriten for som wikkednesse . as holy writ witnesseþ Nemo ascendit ad celum . nisi qui de celo descendit ¶ I leue it wel quod I by oure lord . and on no lettrure bettre For Salomon þe sage . þat Sapience tauȝte God gaf hym grace of wit . and alle hise goodes after He demed wel and wisely . as holy writ telleþ Aristotle and he . who wissed men bettre Maistres þat of goddes mercy . techen men and prechen Of hir wordes þei wissen vs . for wisest as in hir tyme And al holy chirche . holdeþ hem boþe ydampned ¶ And if I sholde werche by hir werkes . to wynne me heuene That for hir werkes and wit . now wonyeþ in pyne Thanne wrouȝte I vnwisly . what-so-euere ye preche ¶ Ac of fele witty in feiþ . litel ferly I haue Thouȝ hir goost be vngracious . god for to plese For many men on þis moolde . moore setten hir hertes W.10.403:nota In good þan in god . for-þi hem grace failleþ W.10.404:nota At hir mooste meschief . whan þei shal lif lete As Salomon dide and swiche oþere . þat shewed grete wittes Ac hir werkes as holy writ seiþ . were euere þe contrarie For-þi wise witted men . and wel ylettrede clerkes As þei seyen hem-self . selde doon þer-after Super cathedra Moysi &c ¶ Ac I wene it worþ of manye . as was in Noes tyme Tho he shoop þat ship . of shides and of bordes Was neuere wrighte saued þat wroȝte þer-on . ne ooþer werkman ellis But briddes and beestes . and þe blissed Noe And his wif wiþ hise sones . and also hire wyues Of wightes þat it wroȝte . was noon of hem ysaued ¶ God leneW.10.417: The reading could as well be leue. it fare noȝt so bi folk . þat þe feiþ techeþ Of holi chirche þat herberwe is . and goddes hous to saueW.10.418: We have not offered an interpretation of the mark at the end of this line. It could represent a flourish, the top of a punctus elevatus, or a move toward writing the "nota" abbreviation. And shilden vs from shame þer-inne . as Noes ship dide beestes And men þat maden it . amydde þe flood adreynten The culorum of þis clause . curatours is to mene That ben Carpenters holy kirk to make . for cristes owene beestes Homines & iumenta saluabis domine &c ¶ On good Friday I fynde . a felon was ysaued That hadde lyued al his lif . wiþ lesynges and with þefte And for he beknede to þe cros . and to crist shrof hym He was sonner ysaued . þan Seint Iohan þe Baptist And or Adam or Ysaye . or any of þe prophetes That hadde yleyen wiþ lucifer . many longe yeres A Robbere was y-raunsoned . raþer þan þei alle Wiþ-outen any penaunce of purgatorie . to perpetuel blisse ¶ Than Marie Maudeleyne . what womman dide werse Or who worse þan Dauid . þat vries deeþ conspired Or Poul þe Apostle . þat no pite hadde Muche cristene kynde . to kille to deþe And now ben þise as Souereyns . wiþ Seintes in heuene Tho þat wrouȝte wikkedlokest . in world þo þei were ¶ And þo þat wisely wordeden . and writen manye bokes Of wit and of wisedom . wiþ dampned soules wonye That Salomon seiþ I trowe be sooþ . and certein of vs alle SineW.10.441: The reading could as well be Siue. iusti atque sapientes . & opera eorum in manu dei sunt &c ¶ Ther are witty and wel libbynge . ac hire werkes ben yhudde In þe hondes of almyȝty god . and he woot þe soþe Wher-fore a man worþ allowed þere . and hise lele werkes Or ellis for his yuel wille . and for enuye of herte And be allowed as he lyued so . for by þeW.10.446: W alone reads þe luþere; other B manuscripts omit þe. luþere men knoweþ þe goode ¶ And wher-by wiste men which wereW.10.447: W alone reads were; other B manuscripts have is. whit . if alle þyng blak were And who were a good man . but if þer were som sherewe For-þi lyue we forþ wiþ oþere men . I leue fewe ben goode For quant / oportet / vient en place . il nyad que / patiW.10.450: The virgules that separate oportet and pati from the rest of the line show that the scribe recognised these two words as Latin. Skeat comments on the mixture of Latin and French, and modernises as "quand oportet vient en place, il n'y a que pati" (Rev. Walter W. Skeat, ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, in Three Parallel Texts (London: Oxford University Press, 1886), 2.162-3). For further parallels see John A. Alford, Piers Plowman: A Guide to the Quotations (Binghamton, 1992), pp. 69-70. In a private communication, Professor Robert Cook writes: "A case could be made for the entire thing being Anglo-Norman except oportet. That might even make sense, in that the one Latin word designates an outside force. The weakening of final /r/ in the infinitive patir is Eastern in origin (M. K. Pope, From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman: Phonology and Morphology (Manchester University Press, 1934), § 401, note **) but spread pretty widely (she finds it in Paris in the 13th c but I have noticed it in Picard texts of the 14th also). Pope ascribes this weakening to Anglo-Norman in § 1193 but does not discuss it or give examples of -ir class infinitives or other cases where the /r/ is absolute final. The retention of final unsupported /t, θ, d, ð/ in AN forms of avoir is probably best presented in her § 1210, where she discusses ad specifically." And he þat may al amende . haue mercy on vs alle For soþest word þat euer god seide . was þo he seide Nemo bonus ¶ Clergie þo of cristes mouþ . comended was it litel For he seide to Seint Peter . and to swiche as he louede Cum steteritis ante Reges & presides &c Thouȝ ye come bifore kynges . and clerkes of þe lawe Beþ noȝt abasshed . for I shal be in youre mouþes And ȝyue yow wit and wille . and konnyng to conclude Hem alle þat ayeins yow . of cristendom disputen ¶ Dauid makeþ mencion . he spak amonges kynges And myȝte no kyng ouercomen hym . as by konnynge of speche But wit and wisedom . wan neuere þe maistrie Whan man was at meschief . wiþ-oute þe moore grace ¶ The douȝtieste doctour . and deuinour of þe trinitee Was Austyn þe olde . and heiȝest of þe foure ¶ Seide þus in a sermon . I seigh it writen ones Ecce ipsi ydioti rapiunt celum vbi nos sapientes in inferno mergimur W.10.468: A later hand (probably different from that beside 10.274 and 10.280) has written nota in the left margin. ¶ And is to mene to menW.10.468: W alone reads men; most other B manuscripts have Englissh men. . moore ne lesse Arn none raþer yrauysshed . fro þe riȝte bileue W.10.469:nota Than are þise konnynge clerkes . þat konne manye bokes W.10.470:nota ¶ Ne none sonner saued . ne sadder of bileue W.10.471:nota Than Plowmen and pastours . and oþere commune laborers W.10.472:nota Souteres and shepherdes . and oþereW.10.473: W alone reads oþere; other B manuscripts have suche. lewed Iuttes W.10.473:nota Percen wiþ a Pater noster . þe paleys of heuene W.10.474:nota And passen Purgatorie penauncelees . at hir hennes partyng In-to þe blisse of Paradis . for hir pure bileue That inparfitly here knewe . and ek lyuede ¶ Ye men knowe clerkes . þat han corsed þe tyme That euere þeþe[i] kouþe or knewe moore . þan Credo in deum patrem And principally hir pater noster . many a persone haþ wisshed ¶ I se ensamples my-self . and so may manye oþere W.10.481:nota That seruauntz þat seruen lordes . selde fallen in arerage W.10.482:nota But þo þat kepen þe lordes catel . clerkes and Reues W.10.483:nota ¶ Right so lewed men . and of litel knowyng W.10.484:nota Selden falle þei so foule . and so fer in synne W.10.485:nota As clerkes of holy chirche . þat kepen cristes tresor W.10.486:nota The which is mannes soule to saue . as god seiþ in þe gospel W.10.488: The line is written as two lines in the right margin and boxed in red.Ite vos in vineam meam