Piers Plowman: A Contribution to the History of English MysticismT. Fisher Unwin, 1894 - 262 páginas |
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Alice Perrers allusions atte autres Bishop bote catte chantry Chaucer Christ church clergy clerks Commons comune Conscience couthe dream Edward Edward III England English France frere friars fynde Gloton heaven holy Holy-Church hure ibid Jean de Meun king kingdom kingdom of England knaves knight kynde kynge labour Lady Meed Langland leve live loke London lordes lyke lyve Malvern Mede meny Merswin monks myghte mystic nought owre Oxford edition Parliament Piers Plowman poem poet Pope priests Prol quath quod Reason rede Redeless rich Richard roialme Rolls Rolls of Parliament Romaunt Rotuli Parliamentorum route of ratones Rulman Merswin Rutebeuf says seide Seint seyde shal sholde Skeat somme sone soul thanne Thenne ther thorw thou thow tonsure Truth tyme visionary Visions whan whanne William Langland witte wolde worche words Wyclif XIVth century yowre
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Página 8 - Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Página 72 - ... Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail ; ; And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. She looks, and her heart is in heaven : but they fade, The mist and the river, the hill and the shade : The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all passed away...
Página 212 - Thou all men and women, without any respect to rich or poor, great or small. And as I travelled up and down, I was not to bid people Good morrow or Good evening; neither might I bow or scrape -with my leg to any one; and this made the sects and professions to rage.
Página 212 - Then they took him up and carried him through the air to the door that I saw in the side of the hill, and put him in there. Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven, as well as from the city of Destruction.
Página 212 - Moreover, when the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low; and I was ,/ required to Thee and Thou all men and women, without any respect to rich or poor, great or small.
Página 212 - I fasted much, and walked abroad in solitary places many days, and often took my Bible, and went and sat in hollow trees and lonesome places till night came on ; and frequently, in the night, walked mournfully about by myself: for I was a man of sorrows in the times of the first workings of the Lord in me.
Página 212 - ... me that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book. This, how strange soever it may seem, I protest before the eternal God is true, neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein, since I did not only clearly hear the noise, but in the serenest sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, did to my thinking see the place from whence it came.
Página 231 - Goddes peyne and his passioun • ful selde thynke I there-on. I visited nevere fieble men • ne fettered folke in puttes ; I have levere here an harlotrie • or a somer-game of souteres, Or lesynges to laughe at • and belye my neighbore, Than al that evere Marke made • Mathew, John, and Lueas.
Página 238 - Of kynge ne conceill, ne of the comunes nother, Ho so toke good kepe to the culorum ; And somme slombrid and slepte, and said but a lite ; And somme mafflid with the mouth, and nyst what they ment; And somme had hire, and helde ther-with evere, And wolde no fforther a ffoot, ffor ffer of her maistris ; And some were so soleyne, and sad...
Página 143 - Ac while he wrought in thys worlde • and wan hus mete with treuthe, He sat atte sydbenche • and secounde table ; Cam no wyn in hus wombe • thorw the weke longe, Nother blankett in hus bed • ne white bred by-fore hym. The cause of al thys caitifte • cometh of meny bisshopes That suffren suche sottes.