Piers Plowman by William Langland

Author:William Langland [Langland, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

1Langland may be punning on his name in “Land of Longing.”

2Again Langland appears to be referring to himself.

3A saying of unknown origin.

4Source not known.

5John iii 5.

6Leviticus xix 17 combined with 1 Timothy v 20.

7Matthew vii 1.

8Such wording is not found in Saint Paul’s Epistles.

9Psalm il (=49) 21 (KJV Psalm l 21).

10Source unknown. The preceding line is omitted to avoid repetition.

11Isaiah lv 1.

12Mark xvi 16.

13Psalm cxliv 9 (KJV Psalm cxlv 9).

14Langland is probably thinking of the best-known compilation, the thirteenth-century Legenda aureum (Golden Legend) by Jacobus or Giacomo de Voragine.

15It is again not clear who speaks lines 172–304. In the C version, Recklessness is once more the speaker, but it is more logical that Scripture should continue the argument.

161 John iii 14. A line is then omitted to avoid repetition.

17Luke xiv 12. A preceding line is omitted to avoid repetition.

18Newborn babes: 1 Peter ii 2.

19John viii 34.

20Galatians vi 2.

21Not John but Matthew vii 2.

22Not known among Saint Gregory’s works.

23Here a line almost identical to Line 228 is omitted.

24Luke x 40.

25Not Matthew but Luke x 42.

26A saying from the twelfth-century Alexander of Villedieu (Schmidt p. 179).

27Proverbs xxx 8.

28Not Luke but Matthew xix 21. Four subsequent lines are omitted to avoid repetition.

29Psalm xxxvi 3 (KJV Psalm xxxvii 3). This quotation is only in Skeat.

30Luke i 37, cf. Matthew xvii 19 (KJV Matthew xvii 20).

31Psalm xxxiii 11 (KJV Psalm xxxiv 10).

32Psalm xlii 1 (KJV Psalm xliii 1). A line very similar to line 268 is omitted.

33Since Langland refers later to his continuing debate with Scripture it is reasonable to give these lines to the narrator.

34James ii 10.

35Psalm xlvi 7–8 (KJV Psalm xlvii 6–7).

36He wakes from his dream within a dream, but is still sleeping.

37It was believed that the peacock destroyed even his own fertilized eggs in order to continue indulging his lust. The notion of conception through the bill goes back to Aristotle.

381 Peter ii 13.

39“Suffering is a virtue, swearing is small vengeance; gentle speech and suffering bring future rewards.” French was still spoken in polite society.

40Ecclesiasticus xi 9. (Ecclesiasticus is regarded as Apocryphal in KJV.)

41Genesis i 31.

42Dionysius Cato, Distich i 5.

43Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae Book 2 Prosa 7.

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