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A09641 The vision of pierce Plowman nowe the second time imprinted by Roberte Crowlye dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne whereunto are added certayne notes and cotations in the mergyne, geuyng light to the reader. And in the begynning is set a brefe summe of all the principal matters spoken of in the boke. And as the boke is deuided into twenty partes called Passus: so is the summary diuided, for euery parte hys summarie, rehearsynge the matters spoken of in euery parte. euen in suche order as they stande there.; Piers the Plowman Langland, William, 1330?-1400? 1550 (1550) STC 19907; ESTC S104327 153,375 262

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felowe For thei bē as our bokes telleth aboue gods werks Misericordia eius super omnia opera eius Psal 4. Yea bawe for bookes ꝙ one was brokē out of hel I Troianus a true knight toke wytnes at a pope Howe I was dead dampned to dwell in paine For an vnchristen creature clerkes witten the sothe That al the clargi vnder Christ ne might me cratch frō hel But only loue leauty my lawful domes Gregory wyst wel that and wylned to my soule Saluation for sothnes that he se in my workes And after that he wepte wylned me were graūted Grace wtout any bedebydding his bone was vnderfogē And I saued as ye se wtout synging of masses By loue and by leadynge of my lyuyng in trueth Brought me frō bitter paine ther no bidding might Lo ye lords what leuty did bi an emperour of Rome That was an vnchristen creature as clarkes finde in Gregorie Not throught praier of a pope but for his pure truth Was the sarazin saued as s Gregory beareth witnes Wel oughtē lords the laws kepe that lessō hold in mynde And on Troianus truth to think do truth to the puple Lawe wtout loue quod Troianus ley there a beane Or any science vnder the sunne the seuen artes and al But they be learned for our lords loue lost is thi time For no cause to catch syluer by or be called a master But all for loue of our lord the bet to loue the people For saynt Iohn sayd it and soth are hys wordes i. Ioh. iii Qui non diligit manet in morte Who so euer loueth me not liueth in death diyng And that all maner of men enemies and frendes Loue eyther other and lene hem as hem selfe Who so leneth not he leueth not god wot the sothe And cūmaūdeth ech creature to cōforme him to loue And souerainely the pore people her enemies after For hem that haten vs is our merite to loue And pore people to please her praiers may vs helpe Christe was pore And our ioye and our health Iesu Christe of heauen In a pore mans apparayle pursued vs after And loked on vs in hyr likenes that with louely chere To know vs by our kynd hert casting of oure eien Whether we loue the lords here before the lord of blisse And exciteth vs by the euāgelie that whā we make feasts We should not clepen our kinne therto ne no kynnes ryche Luk. xiiii Cum facitis cōuiuia nolite inuitare amicos And call the careful thereto the croked the pore For your frendes wil feden you found you to quite Your festīg your fayr gift ech frēd quiteth so other And for the pore I shal pay wel quite her trauayle That geue hē meat or monie and loue hē for mi sake For the best ben some rych some beggers pore For we al are Christes creatures of his cofers rich And brethrē as of one bloud as wel begers as Erles For on Calueri of christis blud christēdome gā sprīg And bloudy brethrē we became thee of one bodi woo As Quasi modo geniti and gentlimen eche one No begger nor no boy among vs Ioh. viii but if sinne it make Qui facit peccatum seruus est peccati In the olde lawe as holy letter telleth Mennes sonnes menne called vs ech one Of Adames issue and Eue aye till god man dyed And after his resurreccion redemptor was his name And we his brethrē by him bought both rich pore Forthy loue we as leue brethrē ech man lene other And of the ech man may forbare amēd ther it nedeth And euerye man helpe other for hence shal we al Alter alterius onera portate Galat v● And be we not vnkind of our catel ne of our cunning For wot no mā how nie it is to be binome frō both Therfore lacke no others life though he more latine know Ne vndernime not fowle for is nō wtout faut For what euer clarkes carpe of christendome or els Christ to a cōmen woman said in cōmune at the feast That Fides sua should saue hir saluē hir of al sinnes Then is beleue a lelly helpe aboue logyke or lawe Of logyke or lawe in Legend a sanctorum Is litle alowaunce made but if beleue hem helpe For it is ouer longe or logyke any lesson assoyle And lawe is loth to loue but if he lacke siluer Boeth logike and law that loueth not to lye I counsell all christen cleaue not theron to sore For some words I find writ were of fayths teachīg That saued sinful men saint Iohn bereth witnes Mat. vii Eadem mensura qua mensi fucritis remetretur vobis Therfore learne we the law of loue as out lord taught And as saynt Gregory sayd for mans soules health Melius scrutari scelera nostra quā naturas retum Why I meane thys matter is moste for the pore For in her likenes our Lorde oft hath bene knowen Wytnes in Paske weke when he yede to Emaus Cleophas ne knew him not that he Christ were For his pore apparell and pilgrames wedes Tyll he blessed and brake the bread that they eaten So by these works they wist that he was Iesus And bi clothing they knew him not ne by carping of tong And all was in example to vs sinfull here That we shoulde be lowe and louely of speach And apparel vs not proudly for pilgrimes are we al And in the apparel of a pore mā pilgrimes lykenes Many tymes god hath ben met among nedy people There neuer segge him see in sette of the rych S. Iohn other saintes were sene in pore clothynge And as pore pilgrymes prayden mens goodes Iesu Christ on a Iews daughter light gētle though she were Was a pore maid on a pore mā wedded Martha on Mary Magdalen an hudge playnet she made And to our sauiour selfe sayd these words Domine non est tibi cure quod soror mea reliquit me solam ministrare Luk. xi And hastely God answerd and eithers wyl folowed Both Marthaas Maries as Mat. bereth witnes And pouertie god put before and praysed that better Maria optimam partem elegit que non c. And al the wise that euer were by ought I cā espye Praysen pouerty for best lyfe if patience folowe And both better blesseder by many fold thā riches And thoughe it be sour to suffer yet after cometh swet As on a walnutte wythout is a bytter barke And after that bitter barke be the shell awaye Is a kernell of conforte lyfe to restore So is after pouertye and penaunce patiently taken For it maketh a mā to haue mind in god a gret wil To wepe and to wel bid wherof waxeth mercy Of whych Christ is a kernel to confort the soule And well siker he slepeth the man that is pore And lesse he dreadeth death and darke to be robbed Than
is cause of scarcitie Amonge christen creatures if christes words be true And vnkindnes Caristiā maketh amōge christē puple And ouer plenty maketh pryd amonges pore rych Therfor mesure is so mich worth it cā not be to dere For the mischife the mischaūce amōgs mē of Sodō Wext throughe plenty of pane and of pure Slouth O ciositas et habundantia panis peccatum turpissimum nutriuit For they measured not hē selfe of that they ate dranke They dyd deadlye synne that the deuyll liked So vengeaunce fell apon hem for her vyle synnes They sonken into hell the cityes eche one Therfore mesure we vs wel make faith our feltron And through faith cometh cōtricion cōsciēce wot wel Whych driueth away deadly syn doth it to veniall And though a mā might not speke cōtritiō might saue And bring his soule to blish by so the faith were witnes That while he liued he beleued in the law of holy kirke Ergo cōtrition fayth cōscience is kindly dowel And surgeōs for dedli sin whē shrift of mouth faileth And shrift of mouth more worthy is if mā be cōtrite For shrift of mouth sleeth sinne be it neuer so deadlye Per confessionem to a prieste peccata occiduntur Ther contricion doth driue downe into veniall synne And Dauid saith in the psalter Psal 32. Satisfaction kylleth sinne Et quorū recta sūt peccata And satisfaction seketh out the rote and both sleeth and voydeth And as it neuer had bē to nought bringeth dedly syn That eft it is not sene no sore but semith a woūd helid Wher wōnith chariti ꝙ Hākin I wist neuer in mi life Man that with him spake as wide as I haue passed That perfite trouth pore hert is Patient of tong There is charitie that chiefe chāberer for god him selfe Wher patiēt porti ꝙ Hākī be mor plesāt to our dright Thā riches rightfully wōne resonably dispended Yea Quis est ille quod Patience quicke laudabimus eum Though men read of riches right to the worlds end I wist neuer reuke the rych was the whā he rekē should Whē he drough to his dethes day that hene dred hī sore And that at the rekening in arerage fel rather thē out of dette Ther the pore dare pleate preue by pure reasō To haue alowaūce of his lord bi the law he it claimeth Ioy that neuer ioy had of ryghtful iudge he asketh And seeth so birds and beastes that no blis ne knoweth And wild wormes in wods bi winters hem greueth And maketh hem welnigh meke mylde for defaut And after thou sēdest hē somer that is her soueraine ioye And blyshe to hem that bene both wylde and tame Then may beggers as beastes after bote waiten Neuer treature was with out ioye here and hence to That al her life haue liued in langour and in defaut But god sent hem sometyme some maner ioye Or here or els where kynde would it neuer For to ouermuch wo was he wrought that neuer was ioy shapē Angels that in hel now bē had ioy sometyme And Diues in deyntis liued and in Douce vie Right so reason sheweth that the men that were rich And her makes also liued hir lyues in myrthe And god is of a wōderous wil by that kind wit sheweth To giue mani mā mercimony ere he it hath deserued Right so fareth god by some rich ruth me it thinketh For they haue her hire here and heauen as it were And great liking to liue without labour of the bodye And whē he dyeth is disalowed as Dauid said in the psalter Psal 76. Dormierunt et nihil inuenerunt And in an other stede also Velunt sompnum surgentium domine In ciuitate tua et ad nichillum rediges Alas that ryches shall reue and robbe mans soule From the loue of our Lorde at hys laste ende Newen that haue her hire before are euermore nedye And selde dieth he out of det that dineth or he deserue it And tyll he haue done hys deuour his dayes iorney For whā a workmā hath wrought thē mē say the soth What he were worthy for his worke what he hath deserued And not to fig before for dred of disanullīg So I say by you rich it semeth not that ye should Haue heauen in your here beyng and heuen hereafter Right as a seruāt taketh his salari before sith wold claime more As he that none had hath hire at the last It may not be ye rych men or Mathew on god lyeth Mat. xix De delictis ad delicias difficile est transite And if ye ryche haue ruthe and rewarde well the pore And lyke as law teacheth done leauty to hem al Christ of hys curtesy shal confort you at the laste And reward you al double riches The rych that be mercyfull shal haue heauen the ruful hert haue And as an hyne that had hys hyre ere he begane Whē he hath dōe his deuour wel mē do him ouirboūt Giue him a tote aboue his couenaūt right so Christe geueth heuē Both to rich not rich that rufully liueth And al that done her deuour wel han double hire for hir trauel Here forgiuenes for her sins heuē blis after And it is but seld sene as by saynts bokes That god rewarded double rest to any rych man For much myrth is among rych as in meat clothes And much myrth in May is amongest wyld beasts And so forth the while somer lasteth her solace dureth And beggers aboute midsomer breadles thei soupe And yet is winter for hē worse for wetshod thei gāg A furst sore and a fyngred and fowle rebuked And rated of ryche men that ruth is to heare Now Lorde send hem somer and some maner ioye Heuen after her hence goyng that here haue such defaute For all mightest thou haue made none meaner thā other And lyke wytty and wyse if the well had lyked And saue ruth of these rich mē that reward not thi prisoners Of the good that thou hem giuest ingrati bē mani And god of thy goodnes giue hem grace to amend For mai no derth hē deare drough ne were he gieue Ne nether heate ne haile haue they her health Of that they wyl and would wanteth hem not here And pore puple thi prisoners lord in the pit of mischef Confort the creaturs that much care sufferen Through derth through drough al her dayes here Wo in winter tymes for wantynge of clothes And in somer tyme selde soupen to the full Conforte thy careful Christe in thy ryches For how thou cōfortest al creatures clarkes bereth witnes Esai xlv Conuertimini ad me et salui eritis Thus in general of gentryes Iesu Christ sayde To robbers and to reuers to rich and to pore Thou taughtest hem in the trinitie to take baptisme And be cleane through the christening of al kins sinnes And if vs fell through foly to fal in synne