Pierce the Ploughmans Crede & God Spede the Plough

348 Pages·1867·19.304 MB·English

by  W.W. Skeat (ed.)

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EDINBURGH: T. G. STEVENSON, 22, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET.
GLASGOW: • OGLE & CO., 1, ROYAL EXCH.INGE SQUARE
BERLIN ASHER & CO., UNTER DEN LINDEN, 20.
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NEW YORK: C, SCRIBNER & CO.
PHILADELRHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
BOSTON: DUTTON & CO.
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(about 1394 A.D.)
TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED FROM MS. TRIN. COLL., CAM., R. 3, 15,
COLLATED WITH MS. BIBL. REG. 18. B. xvii. IN THE BRITISH
MUSEUM,AND WITH THE OLD PRINTED TEXT OF 1553
TO WHICH IS APPENDED
(about 1500 A.D.)
FROM MS. LANSDOWNE 7G2;
REV. ^YALTER W. SKEAT, M.A.,
I.ATK FELLOW OPCHRIST'S COLLEQE,CAMBRIDGE AND EDITOROP "LANGLAND'S VISION
OF PIEUS PLOWMAN,""LANCELOT OFTHE LAIK,;" AND"THEKOMANSOPP.VRTENAY."
LONDON
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY N. TRUBNER ^ CO., GO, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDOCCLXVn.

CONTENTS.
Preface. § 1. The present a ??y?'ceilition. § 2, Description
of the editions. I. By Wolfe (1553) ; II. By Owen
Rogers (1561) ; III. By Dr Whitaker (1814) ; IV. By
Mr Wright (1832); reprinted in 1856. § 3. Inves-
tigation of the MS. in the Brit. ]\Iuseum. § 4. The
Trinity ]\IS. § 5. Eesults. § 6. Restoration of the
original text. § 7. Printed in long lines. § 8. Some
accountofthe poem. § 9. Booksfor consultation. § 10.
The rise of the Mendicant Orders. § 11. Date of the
poem. § 12. The autlior. § 13. The "Complaint of
the Ploughmaia," or " Plowman's Tale." § 14. Dates of
both poems. § 15. Fine passages in the poem. § 10.
The five new lines now first printed. § 17. Glossary
to the edition of 1553
Pierce the PLOUGinrAxs Crede 1
Xotes to the " Crede" . . 33
Glossarial Index 5G
Index of Xames G8
God spede the Plough 69
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Notes to *' God spede the plough" 73
Glossarial Index 75