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Piers the Ploughman (Penguin Classics)

by William Langland

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Info:	Penguin Classics (1959), Edition: New Impression, Paperback, 320 pages
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Canonical Title

Piers the Ploughman

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1367 -70 (A ms.)

1377 - 79 (B ms.)

1380s [1380] (C ms.)

1959 (English ∙ Goodridge)

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Malvern Hills, Worchestershire, England

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In a summer season when the sun was mild

I clad myself in clothes as I'd become a sheep;

In the habit of a hermit unholy of works

Walked wide in this world, watching for wonders. (Donaldson Translation)

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0393960110, Paperback)

"Cesseth!' seide the Kyng, " I suffre yow no lenger. Ye shul saughtne, forsothe, and serve me bothe. Kis hire,' quod the Kyng, "Conscience, I hote!' "Nay, by Crist!' quod Conscience," congeye me rather! But Reson rede me therto, rather wol I deye.

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