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<Author>Langland, William</Author>
<Title>The Vision of Piers Plowman</Title>
<Edition>A. V. C. Schmidt, editor. B text. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1978.</Edition>
<Date>1377-1379</Date>
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<div0 n=Prologue>
<l n=P.1> In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne,</l>
<l n=P.2>I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were,</l>
<l n=P.3>In habite as an heremite unholy of werkes,</l>
<l n=P.4>Wente wide in this world wondres to here.</l>
<l n=P.5>Ac on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles</l>
<l n=P.6>Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte.</l>
<l n=P.7>I was wery forwandred and wente me to reste</l>
<l n=P.8>Under a brood bank by a bourne syde;</l>
<l n=P.9>And as I lay and lenede and loked on the watres,</l>
<l n=P.10>I slombred into a slepyng, it sweyed so murye.</l>
<l n=P.11>Thanne gan I meten a merveillous swevene--</l>
<l n=P.12>That I was in a wildernesse, wiste I nevere where.</l>
<l n=P.13>A[c] as I biheeld into the ee . . .