Name: The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman — Passus 3
Author: William Langland

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ And hath enpoisoned popes,
And peired holy chirche.
Is noght a bettre baude,
By hym that me made!
Bitwene hevene and helle,
In erthe though men soughte.
For she is tikel of hire tail,
And tale-wis of hire tonge ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ Brewesters and baksters,
Bochiers and cokes,
For thise are men on this molde
That moost harm wercheth
To the povere peple
That percel-mele buggen; ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ The regratiers to mayntene;
"For my love," quod that lady,
"Love hem echone,
And suffre hem to selle 1540
Som del ayeins reson."
⁠Salomon the sage
A sermon he made,
For to amenden maires
And men that kepen lawes ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ Now Lord gyve hire sorwe! 1690
And alle that maynteneth hire men,
Meschaunce hem bitide!
For povere men may have no power
To pleyne hem, though thei smerte.
Swich a maister is Mede
Among men of goode. ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ Hire floryns go so thikke.
She ledeth the lawe as hire list,
And love-daies maketh,
And doth men lese thorugh hire love,
That lawe myghte wynne
The maze for a mene man,
Though he mote hire evere. ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ And faile yow nevere, 1460
While ye love lordes
That lecherie haunten,
And lakketh noght ladies
That loven wel the same.
It is freletee of flesshe,
Ye fynden it in bokes,
And a cours of kynde
Wherof we comen alle. ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ As thei mowe acorde.
⁠"Beggeres for hir biddynge,
Bidden men mede.
⁠"Mynstrales for hir myrthe,
Mede thei aske.
⁠"The kyng hath mede of his men,
To make pees in londe. 1800
⁠"Men that teche children,
Craven after mede. ”

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William Langland, The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman… (1887)

“ And massepens and hire mete
At the meel-tymes.
⁠"Alle kynne craftes men
Craven mede for hir prentices.
⁠"Marchauntz and Mede
Mote nede go togideres. 1810
No wight, as I wene,
Withouten mede may libbe." ”

William Langland

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