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L.7.1KD.7.1 TreutheL.7.1: The ornamental capital is five lines high in blue ink on red with two sprays. A small guide letter <t> appears in the left
                           margin. herde telle her-of · and to peres he sent
                  
L.7.2KD.7.2 To taken his teme and tulyen þe erthe
L.7.3KD.7.3 And purchaced hym a pardoun · a pena & a culpa
L.7.4KD.7.4 For hym and for his heires · for euermore after
L.7.5KD.7.5 And bad hym holde hym at home · and eryen his leyes
L.7.6KD.7.6 And alle þat halpe hym to erie · to sette or to sowe
L.7.7KD.7.7 Or any other myster · þat myȝte pieres auaille ·
L.7.8KD.7.8 Pardoun with pieres plowman · treuthe hath ygraunted
L.7.9KD.7.9 L.7.9: The rubricating scribe may have overlooked the paragraph indicator in the left margin because the original scribe failed
                           to skip a line. ¶ Kynges and knyȝtes · þat kepen holycherche
                  
L.7.10KD.7.10 And ryȝtfullych in reumes · reulen þe peple
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L.7.11KD.7.11 Han pardoun thourgh purgatorie · to passe ful lyȝtly
                  
L.7.12KD.7.12 With patriarkes and prophetes · in paradise to be felawes
                  

L.7.13KD.7.13 ¶ Bisshopes yblessed · ȝif þei ben as þei shulden
                  
L.7.14KD.7.14 Legistres of bothe þe lawes · þe lewed þere-with to preche
                  
L.7.15KD.7.15 And in as moche as þei mowe · amende alle synful
                  
L.7.16KD.7.16 L.7.16: There is perhaps the remainder of a scraped gloss in the left margin. Aren peres with þe apostles · þusL.7.16: LMRF read þus; most other beta witnesses have þis. pardoun Piers sheweth
                  
L.7.17KD.7.17 And at þe day of dome · atte heigh deyse to sytte

L.7.18KD.7.18 ¶ Marchauntz in þe margyne · hadden many ȝeres
                  
L.7.19KD.7.19 Ac none a pena & a culpa · þe Pope nolde hem graunte
                  
L.7.20KD.7.20 For þei holde nouȝt her halidayes · as holicherche techeth
L.7.21KD.7.21 And for þei swere by her soule · and so god moste hem helpe
L.7.22KD.7.22 Aȝein clene conscience · her catel to selle

L.7.23KD.7.23 L.7.23-27: A bracket in the left margin extends five lines and is scored twice horizontally. ¶ Ac vnder his secret seel · treuthe sent hem a lettre
                  
L.7.24KD.7.24 That þey shulde bugge boldely · þat hem best liked
L.7.25KD.7.25 And sithenes selle it aȝein · and saue þe wynnygewynny[n]ge
L.7.26KD.7.26 And amende mesondieux þere-myde · and myseyse folke helpe
                  
L.7.27KD.7.27 And wikked wayes · wiȝtlich hem amende
L.7.28KD.7.28 And do bote to brugges þat to-broke were
                  
L.7.29KD.7.29 Marien maydenes · or maken hem nonnes
L.7.30KD.7.30-31 Pore peple and prisounes · fynden hem here fode
L.7.31KD.7.32 And sette scoleres to scole · or to somme other craftes
                  
L.7.32KD.7.33 Releue Religioun · and renten hem bettere
                  
L.7.33KD.7.34 And I shal sende ȝow my-selue · seynt Michel myn archangel
                  
L.7.34KD.7.35 Þat no deuel shal ȝow dere · ne fere ȝow in ȝowre deying
L.7.35KD.7.36 And witen ȝow fro wanhope · if ȝe wil þus worche
L.7.36KD.7.37 And sende ȝowre sowles in safte · to my seyntes in ioye

¶ Þanne were Marchauntz mery · many wepten for ioye

And preyseden Pieres þe plowman · þat purchaced þis bulle

L.7.39KD.7.40 L.7.39: Though the scribe left a blank line, usually indicative of a strophe division, there is no parasign. Men of lawe lest pardoun hadde þat pleteden for Mede
                  
L.7.40KD.7.41 For þe sauter saueth hem nouȝte · such as taketh ȝiftes
                  
L.7.41KD.7.42 And namelich of innocentz þat none yuel ne kunneth
L.7.42KD.7.42α Super innocentem munera non accipies
L.7.43KD.7.43 Pledoures shulde peynen hem · to plede for such an helpe
L.7.44KD.7.44 Prynces and prelates · shulde paye for her trauaille
                  
L.7.45KD.7.44α A regibus & pryncipibus erit merces eorum

L.7.46KD.7.45 ¶ Ac many a iustice an iuroure · wolde for Iohan do more
                  
L.7.47KD.7.46 Þan pro dei pietate · leue þow none other
                  
L.7.48KD.7.47 Ac he þat spendeth his speche and spekeþ for þe pore
L.7.49KD.7.48 Þat is Innocent and nedy · and no man appeireth
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L.7.50KD.7.49 Conforteth hym in þat cas · with-oute coueytise of ȝiftes
                  
L.7.51KD.7.50 And scheweth lawe for owre lordes loue · as he it hath lerned
L.7.52KD.7.51 Shal no deuel at his ded-dayL.7.52: LCGR alone read ded-; most other B manuscripts have deeþ. The same variants appear in L.7.127. · deren hym a myte
                  
L.7.53KD.7.52 Þat he ne worth sauf and his sowle · þe sauter bereth witnesse
L.7.54KD.7.52α Domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo &c ·

L.7.55KD.7.53 ¶ Ac to bugge water ne wynde · ne witte ne fyre þe fierthe
                  
L.7.56KD.7.54 Þise foure þe fader of heuene · made to þis folde in comune
L.7.57KD.7.55 Þise ben treuthes tresores · trewe folke to helpe
L.7.58KD.7.56 Þat neuere shal wax ne wanye · with-oute god hym-selue
                  

L.7.59KD.7.57 ¶ Whan þei drawen on to deyeL.7.59: LW alone read to deye; most other B manuscripts have to þe deþ. The confusion of <þ> and <y> in both L and W is probably coincidental, since both were copied well outside the regions in
                           which the graphs are confused. See Michael Benskin, "The letters <þ> and <y> in later Middle English, and some related matters,"
                           Journal of the Society of Archivists 7 (1982-1985): 13-30. · and Indulgences wolde haue
                  
L.7.60KD.7.58 Her pardoun is ful petit · at her partyng hennes
                  
L.7.61KD.7.59 Þat any Mede of mene men for her motyng taketh
L.7.62KD.7.60 Ȝe legistres and lawyeres · holdeth þis for treuthe
L.7.63KD.7.60 Þat ȝif þat I lye · Mathew is to blame
L.7.64KD.7.60.1 For he bad me make ȝow þis · and þis prou....erbe me tolde
                  
L.7.65KD.7.60α Quodcumque vultis vt faciant vobis homines · facite eis

L.7.66KD.7.61 ¶ Alle lybbyng laboreres · þat lyuen with her hondes
                  
L.7.67KD.7.62 Þat trewlich taken · and trewlich wynnen
L.7.68KD.7.63 And lyuen in loue and in lawe · for her lowe hertis
L.7.69KD.7.64 Haueth þe same absolucioun · þat sent was to peres

L.7.70KD.7.65 ¶ Beggeres ne bidderes · ne beth nouȝte in þe bulle
                  
L.7.71KD.7.66 But if þe suggestioun be soth · þat shapeth hem to begge
                  
L.7.72KD.7.67 For he þat beggeth or bit · but if he haue nede
L.7.73KD.7.68 He is fals with þe fende · and defraudeth þe nedy
L.7.74KD.7.69 And also he bigileth þe gyuer ageines his wil
L.7.75KD.7.70 For if he wist he were nouȝte nedy · he wolde ȝiue þat an other
L.7.76KD.7.71 Þat were more nedy þan he · so þe nediest shuld be hulpe
L.7.77KD.7.72 Catoun kenneth men þus · and þe clerke of þeL.7.77: LMRF alone have þe before stories; all other B manuscripts omit it. stories
                  
L.7.78KD.7.73 Cui des videto · is catounes techyng
                  
L.7.79KD.7.74 And in þe stories he techeth · to bistowe þyn almes
X
L.7.80KD.7.75 Sit elemosinaL.7.80: An added <X> in the left margin is partially scraped. The omitted tua after elemosina was never added; note that it is absent from alpha and M as well. in manu tua donec studes cui des

L.7.81KD.7.76 ¶ Ac Gregori was a gode man · and bad vs gyuen alle
                  
L.7.82KD.7.77 Þat asketh for his loue · þat vs alle leneth
L.7.83KD.7.77α Non eligas cui miserearis · ne forte pretereas illum qui meretur accipere
L.7.84KD.7.77β Quia incertum est pro quo deum magis placeas

¶ For wite ȝe neuere who is worthi · ac god wote who hath nede

In hym þat taketh is þe treccherye · if any tresoun walkeL.7.86: Skeat and Kane-Donaldson read wawe, which is possible, but the upright character of the <l> suggests that walke is the intended reading.

For he þat ȝiueth ȝeldeth · and ȝarketh hym to reste

L.7.88KD.7.81

And he þat biddeth borweth · and bryngeth hym-self in dette

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For beggeres borwen euermo · and her borgh is god almyȝti

To ȝelden hem þat ȝiueth hem · and ȝet vsure more

Quare non dedisti peccuniam meam ad mensam vt ego veniens cum vsuris exigerem ·L.7.91: LCr alone read exigerem; most B manuscripts have exigissem. This may be the reason for an unusually large <X> in the left margin here.

L.7.92KD.7.84 ¶ For-þi biddeth nouȝt ȝe beggeres · but if ȝe haue gret nede
                  
L.7.93KD.7.85 For who-so hath to buggen hym bred · þe boke bereth witnesse
                  
L.7.94KD.7.86 He hath ynough þat hath bred ynough · þough he haue nouȝt elles
L.7.95KD.7.86α Satis diues est qui non indiget pane

L.7.96KD.7.87 ¶ Late vsage be ȝowreL.7.96: The characters <be ȝo> are obscured by a large drop mark left on the leaf. solace · of seyntes lyues redyng
                  
L.7.97KD.7.88 Þe boke banneth beggarie · and blameth hem in þis manere
L.7.98KD.7.89 Iunior fui etenim senui · et non vidi iustum derelictum nec semen eius &c

L.7.99KD.7.90 ¶ For ȝe lyue in no loue · ne no lawe holde
                  
L.7.100KD.7.91 Many of ȝow ne wedde nouȝt · þe wommen þat ȝe with delen
                  
L.7.101KD.7.92 But as wilde bestis with wehe · worthen vppe and worchen
L.7.102KD.7.93 And bryngeth ...?...forth barnes · þat bastardes men calleth
                  
L.7.103KD.7.94 Or þe bakke or some bone · he breketh in his ȝouthe
+
L.7.104KD.7.95 AL.7.104: L alone reads A for "And." The corrector noted this with a <+> in the left margin both here and at L.8.53. sitthe gon faiten with ȝoure fauntes · for euermore after
                  
L.7.105KD.7.96 Þere is moo mysshape peple · amonge þise beggeres
L.7.106KD.7.97 Þan of alle maner men · þat on þis molde walketh
L.7.107KD.7.98 And þei þat lyue þus here lyf · mowe lothe þe tyme
                  
L.7.108KD.7.99 Þat euere he was man wrouȝt · whan he shal hennes fare

L.7.109KD.7.100 ¶ Ac olde men & hore · þat helplees ben of strengthe
                  
L.7.110KD.7.101 L.7.110-126: A bracket in the left margin links the lines from here to the bottom of the leaf in gray ink. And women with childe · þat worche ne mowe
                  
L.7.111KD.7.102 Blynde and bedered · and broken her membres
L.7.112KD.7.103 Þat taketh þis myschiefL.7.112: LMR alone have the singular þis myschief; most other B manuscripts read þise myschiefs. mekelych · as meseles and othere
                  
L.7.113KD.7.104 Han as pleyne pardoun as þe plowman hym-self
                  
L.7.114KD.7.105 For loue of her lowe hertis · owre lorde hath hem graunted
                  
L.7.115KD.7.106 Here penaunce and here purgatorie · here on þis erthe

L.7.116KD.7.107

¶ Pieres quod a prest þo · þi pardoun most I rede

For I wil construe eche clause · and kenne it þe on englich

L.7.118KD.7.109 ¶ And pieres at his preyere · þe pardoun vnfoldeth
                  
L.7.119KD.7.110 And I bihynde hem bothe · bihelde al þe bulle
L.7.120KD.7.111 Al in two lynes it lay · and nouȝt a leef more
L.7.121KD.7.112 And was writen riȝt þus · in witnesse of treuthe
Indulgencia 
 petri
L.7.122KD.7.113 Et qui bona egerunt ibunt in vitam eternam
L.7.123KD.7.114 Qui vero mala in ignem eternum ·

L.7.124KD.7.115

¶ Peter quod þe prest þo · I can no pardoun fynde

But dowel and haue wel · and god shal haue þi sowle

And do yuel and haue yuel · hope þow non other

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ÞatL.7.127: LMRF alone read Þat; most other B manuscripts have But. A drypoint <X> appears in the left margin. after þi ded-dayL.7.127: LCGY alone read ded-; most other B manuscripts have deeþ-. The same variants appear in L.7.52. · þe deuel shal haue þi sowle

L.7.128KD.7.119

¶ And pieres for pure tene · pulled it atweyne

And seyde si ambulauero in medio vmbre mortis · non timebo mala quoniam tu mecum es

L.7.130KD.7.122 ¶ I shal cessen of my sowyng quod pieres · and swynk nouȝt so harde
                  
L.7.131KD.7.123 Ne about my bely-ioye · so bisi be namore
                  
L.7.132KD.7.124 Of preyersL.7.132: The second <r> of preyers was inserted after initial copying, probably by a later hand. and of penaunce · my plow shal ben her-after
                  
L.7.133KD.7.125 And wepen whan I shulde slepe · þough whete bred me faille

¶ Þe prophete his payn ete · in penaunce and in sorweL.7.134: A large <X> appears in the left margin; the reason is not apparent.

By þat þe sauter seith · so dede other manye

L.7.136KD.7.128

Þat loueth god lelly · his lyflode is ful esy

Fuerunt michi lacrime mee · panes die ac nocte

L.7.138KD.7.129 ¶ And but if Luke lye · he lereth vs bi foules
                  
L.7.139KD.7.130 We shulde nouȝt be to bisy · aboute þe worldes blisse
L.7.140KD.7.131 Ne solliciti sitis · he seyth in þe gospel
                  
L.7.141KD.7.132 And sheweth vs bi ensamples · vs-selue to wisse
                  
L.7.142KD.7.133 Þe foules onL.7.142: LM alone read on; most other B manuscripts have in. þe felde · who fynt hem mete at wynter
                  
L.7.143KD.7.135 Haue þei no gernere · to go to  but god fynt hem alle

L.7.144KD.7.136

¶ What quod þe prest to perkyn · peter as me þinketh

Þow art lettred a litel · who lerned þe on boke

¶ Abstinence þe abbesse quod pieres · myne abc · me tauȝte

And conscience come afterward · and kenned me moche more

L.7.148KD.7.140

¶ Were þow a prest pieres quod he · þow miȝte preche where þow sholdest

As deuynour in deuynyte · with dixit insipiens to þi teme

L.7.150KD.7.142 ¶ Lewed lorel quod Pieres · litel lokestow on þe bible
                  
L.7.151KD.7.143 On salomones sawes · selden þow biholdest
L.7.152KD.7.143α Ecce derisores et iurgia cum eis ne crescant &c

L.7.153KD.7.144 ¶ Þe prest and perkyn · apposeden eyther other
                  
L.7.154KD.7.145 And I þorw here wordes awoke · and waited aboute
L.7.155KD.7.146 And seighe þe sonne in þe south sitte þat tyme
L.7.156KD.7.147 Metelees and monelees · on Maluerne hulles
L.7.157KD.7.148 Musyng on þis meteles · and my waye ich ȝede
L.7.158KD.7.149 Many tyme þis meteles · hath maked me to studye
L.7.159KD.7.150 Of þat I seigh slepyng · if it so be myȝte
L.7.160KD.7.151 And also for peres þe plowman · ful pensyf in herte
L.7.161KD.7.152 And which a pardoun peres hadde · alle þe peple to conforte
                  
L.7.162KD.7.153 And how þe prest impugned it with two propre wordes
                  
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L.7.163KD.7.154 Ac I haue no sauoure in songewarie · for I se it ofte faille
L.7.164KD.7.155 Catoun and canonistres · conseilleth vs to leue
                  
L.7.165KD.7.156 To sette sadnesse in songewarie · for sompnia ne cures

L.7.166KD.7.157 ¶ Ac for þe boke bible  bereth witnesse
                  
L.7.167KD.7.158 How danyel deuyned · þe dremes of a kynge
L.7.168KD.7.159 Þat was nabugodonosor · nempned of clerkis
L.7.169KD.7.160 Daniel seyde sire Kynge · þi dremeles bitokneth
L.7.170KD.7.161 Þat vnkouth knyȝtes shul come · þi kyngdom to cleueL.7.170-171: A corrector's dry point cross appears in the left margin and perhaps reflects his exemplar's reading cleyme in place of LC2GMO's cleue.
L.7.171KD.7.162 Amonges lowere lordes · þi londe shal be departed
                  
L.7.172KD.7.163 And as danyel deuyned in dede it felle after
L.7.173KD.7.164 Þe kynge lese his lordship · and lower men it hadde

L.7.174KD.7.165 ¶ And ioseph mette merueillously · how þe mone and þe sonne
                  
L.7.175KD.7.166 And þe elleuene sterres · hailsed hym alle
L.7.176KD.7.167 Þanne Iacob iugged · iosephes sweuene
L.7.177KD.7.168 Beau filtz quod his fader · for defaute we shullen
                  
L.7.178KD.7.169 I my-self and my sones · seche þe for nede
                  

L.7.179KD.7.170 ¶ It bifel as his fader seyde · in pharaoes tyme
                  
L.7.180KD.7.171 Þat ioseph was iustice · egipte to loken
L.7.181KD.7.172 It bifel as his fader tolde · his frendes þere hym souȝte
L.7.182KD.7.173 And al þis maketh me · on þis meteles to þynke

L.7.183KD.7.174 ¶ And how þe prest preued · no pardoun to dowel
                  
L.7.184KD.7.175 And demed þat dowel · indulgences passed
Dowell passith 
 the pardon of 
 petres churche
                  
L.7.185KD.7.176 Biennales and triennales · and bisschopes lettres
                  
L.7.186KD.7.177 And how dowel at þe day of dome · is dignelich vnderfongen
L.7.187KD.7.178 And passeth al þe pardoun · of seynt petres cherche
                  

L.7.188KD.7.179 ¶ Now hath þe pope powere · pardoun to graunte þe peple
                  
L.7.189KD.7.180 With-outen eny penaunce · to passen in-to heuene
                  
L.7.190KD.7.181 Þis is owre bileue · as lettered men vs techeth
L.7.191KD.7.181α Quodcumque ligaueris super terram · erit ligatum et in celis &c ·
L.7.192KD.7.182 And so I leue lelly · lordes forbode ellis
L.7.193KD.7.183 Þat pardoun and penaunce · and preyeres don saue
                  
L.7.194KD.7.184 Soules þat haue synned · seuene sithes dedly
L.7.195KD.7.185 Ac to trust to þise triennales · trewly me þinketh
L.7.196KD.7.186 Is nouȝt so syker for þe soule · certis as is dowel

¶ L.7.197: A dry point <X> appears in the left margin. For-þi I rede ȝow renkes · þat riche ben on þis erthe

Vppon trust of ȝowre tresoure · triennales to haue

Be ȝe neuere þe balder · to breke þe xten hestes

L.7.200KD.7.190

And namelich ȝe maistres · mayres and iugges

Þat han þe welthe of þis worlde · and for wyse men ben holden

To purchace ȝow pardoun

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To purchace ȝow pardoun · and þe popis bulles

At þe dredeful dome · whan ded shullen rise

L.7.204KD.7.194

And comen alle bifor cryst · acountis to ȝelde

How þow laddest þi lyf here · and his lawes keptest

a poke full of
pardon

And how þow dedest day bi day · þe dome wil reherceL.7.206: The same hand as that in the margins of L.7.185 has written in the right margin: a poke full of
pardon.

A poke ful of pardoun þere · ne prouinciales lettres

L.7.208KD.7.198

Theigh ȝe be founde in þe fraternete · of alle þe foure ordres

And haue indulgences double-folde · but if dowel ȝow help

I sette ȝowre patentes and ȝowre pardounzL.7.210: LCr alone read pardounz; other B manuscripts have pardon. at one pies hele

L.7.211KD.7.201 ¶ For-þi I conseille alle cristene · to crye god mercy
                  
L.7.212KD.7.202 And Marie his moder · be owre mene bitwene
L.7.213KD.7.203 Þat god gyue vs grace here · ar we gone hennes
L.7.214KD.7.204 Suche werkes to werche · while we ben here
L.7.215KD.7.205 Þat after owre deth-day · dowel reherce
                  
L.7.216KD.7.206 At þe day of dome · we dede as he hiȝte