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II. THE PLOWMANS TALE.
[PART I.
With chaunge of many maner metes,
150With song and solace sitting long,
And filleth hir wombë, and fast fretes,
And from the metë to the gong;
And after mete with harp and song,
And ech man mot hem lordes call;
155And hotë spyces ever among;
Such falsë faytours, foul hem fall!
150With song and solace sitting long,
And filleth hir wombë, and fast fretes,
And from the metë to the gong;
And after mete with harp and song,
And ech man mot hem lordes call;
155And hotë spyces ever among;
Such falsë faytours, foul hem fall!
And myters mo than oon or two,
I-perled as the quenes heed;
A staf of golde, and †perrey, lo!
160As hevy as it were mad of leed;
With cloth of gold both newe and reed,
With glitterand †gown as grene as gall,
By dome will dampnë men to deed;
All suche faytours, foul hem fall!
I-perled as the quenes heed;
A staf of golde, and †perrey, lo!
160As hevy as it were mad of leed;
With cloth of gold both newe and reed,
With glitterand †gown as grene as gall,
By dome will dampnë men to deed;
All suche faytours, foul hem fall!
165And Christes people proudly curse
With brode bokes, and braying bell;
To putte pennyes in hir purse
They woll sell both heven and hell;
And in hir sentence, and thou wilt dwell,
170They willen gesse in hir gay hall;
And though the soth thou of hem tell,
In greet cursinge shalt thou fall.
With brode bokes, and braying bell;
To putte pennyes in hir purse
They woll sell both heven and hell;
And in hir sentence, and thou wilt dwell,
170They willen gesse in hir gay hall;
And though the soth thou of hem tell,
In greet cursinge shalt thou fall.
That is blessed, that they blesse,
And cursed, that they cursë woll;
175And thus the people they oppresse,
And have their lordshippes at full;
And many be marchauntes of woll,
And to purse penyes woll come thrall;
The porë people they all to-pull,
180Such falsë faytours, foul hem fall!
And cursed, that they cursë woll;
175And thus the people they oppresse,
And have their lordshippes at full;
And many be marchauntes of woll,
And to purse penyes woll come thrall;
The porë people they all to-pull,
180Such falsë faytours, foul hem fall!
149. meates. 150. songe; syttynge longe. 151. her. 152. meate; gonge. 153. meate; harpe; songe. 154. eche; mote. 155. amonge. 156. Suche; foule. 157. one. 159. staffe; pyrrey; read perrey. 160. made; lead. 161. golde; redde. 162. glytterande; golde (repeated from l. 161; read gown). 164. foule. 167. her. 168. hel. 169. her. 170. her gaye. 172. great. 179. poore. 180. Suche; foule.
