William Langland Quotes

• There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

  William Langland

  Shame, Sour

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• But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

  William Langland

  Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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• Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

  William Langland

  Father, Son, Tree

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• First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

  William Langland

  Holiday, Ignorance, Reality

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• The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!

  William Langland

  Wisdom, Teaching, Justice

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• For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.

  William Langland

  Si

  'Piers Plowman' B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 10, l. 297

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• Who will bell the cat?

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  Cat, Bells

  William Langland (1874). “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman”, p.101

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• In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

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  Sheep, World, This World

  c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)

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• Y cuando de este rebaño tomó la carne y la sangre, nunca más fue dejada sobre el linde del mechero, y transportada y perseguida como la punta de una aguja, que a mediodía no dejaba a nadie levantarse de las paredes.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.

  William Langland

  Taken, Blood, Noon

  William Langland (1856). “The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman”, p.24

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• A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

  William Langland

  Men, World, Folks

  'Piers Plowman', B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) prologue l. 17

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• I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

  William Langland

  Capó

  William Langland (2015). “Piers Plowman”, p.59, Booklassic

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• Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

  William Langland

  Apples, Piers, Als

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.

  William Langland

  Casta

  William Langland, “The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 01”

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