The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text / William Langland
dc.contributor | Burnley, J.D. Department of English University of Sheffield Sheffield |
dc.contributor.author | Langland, William, 1330?-1400? |
dc.contributor.editor | Schmidt, A.V.C. (Aubrey Vincent Carlyle) |
dc.coverage.placeName | London |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:56:25Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:56:25Z |
dc.date.created | 1387 |
dc.date.issued | 1992-04-03 |
dc.identifier | ota:1687 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1687 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1687 |
dc.description.abstract | Based on Trinity College Cambridge MS, B.15.17 |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 504 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
dc.language.iso | enm |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.relation.isreplacedby | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3261 |
dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
dc.rights.label | ACA |
dc.subject.lcsh | English literature -- 14th century |
dc.subject.other | Parables |
dc.title | The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text / William Langland |
dc.type | Text |
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files.count | 2 |
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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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<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 . . .