The vision and creed of Piers Ploughman . NOTES AND GLOSSARY-. NOTES. LINE 1. Bale, quoting the first two lines, translates them In(cstlvo tempore, cum sol caleret. The printers of the earlyeditions altered so/te to set, 4, 5. shroudes . . sheep. The other text of this poem readsYshopi into shrohhis \ as y shcpJicrde were. See the Introduction. 28. The text represented in Whitakers edition here differsmuch from the other. Our dreamer is there introduced veryunadvisedly telling us of this tower, truthe was therynne, apiece of information which he only learns afterwards from dame Holy Churche :

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The vision and creed of Piers Ploughman . NOTES AND GLOSSARY-. NOTES. LINE 1. Bale, quoting the first two lines, translates them In(cstlvo tempore, cum sol caleret. The printers of the earlyeditions altered so/te to set, 4, 5. shroudes . . sheep. The other text of this poem readsYshopi into shrohhis \ as y shcpJicrde were. See the Introduction. 28. The text represented in Whitakers edition here differsmuch from the other. Our dreamer is there introduced veryunadvisedly telling us of this tower, truthe was therynne, apiece of information which he only learns afterwards from dame Holy Churche : Ich was aferd of laire face, Wat may this be to iiiene, Tliauh hue faire were, The tour upon /o/(,quath hue, And saide, mercy, madame, Treutlie ys therymie. (Passus Secundus, ed. Whit.) Where there is an evident reference to the tour on a toft, whichhas been previously mentioned in the more correct text. 43, 44. Dr. Whitaker, misunderstanding this passage, hasprinted ther for that, which is in all the MSS. In his interprets wonnen by to dwell; and

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