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Mum, Sothsegger (Richard the Redeless). The only MS now known is that
marked Ll. 4. 14 in the Cambridge University Library, described by
Skeat, The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman (E. E. T. S. )
II, pp. xx f. and 111, pp. ciü ff.
The Parlement of the Thre Ages and Wynnere and Wastoure. The MSS
are described by Gollancz in his edition.
Letters of the Insurgent Leaders. These are in Knighton's Chronicon and
Walsingham's Historia Anglicana, the MSS of which are described by
the respective editors, Luard and Riley (Rolls Series).
Peres the Ploughmans Crede. The MSS are described in Skeat's editions.
The Ploughman's Tale. No MS is known to exist.
Jacke Upland, etc. No MS of Jacke Upland is known to exist. The Reply
of Friar Daw Topias and Jack Upland's Rejoinder are preserved in MS
Digby 41 of the Bodleian Library, of. Wright, Political Poems and
Songs, II, p. 39 n.
The Crowned King is preserved in MS Douce 95 of the Bodleian Library,
of. Skeat's E. E. T. S. ed. of Piers the Plowman, 111, pp. 523 ff.
Death and Liffe and The Scotish Ffeilde are preserved in the Peroy Folio
MS; an imperfect copy of the latter is also contained in a MS of queen
Elizabeth's time belonging to the Legh family at Lyme Hall, Cheshire,
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EDITIONS.
Piers the Plowman.
(B-text. )
The Vision of Pierce Plowman, now fyrste imprynted by Roberte Crowley,
dwellyng in Ely rentes in Holburne. Anno Domini. 1505 (for 1550).
Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Two other impressions, both
said to be nowe the seconde time imprinted,' were issued by Crowley in
the same year; see Skeat's editions for descriptions.
The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authours olde
copy, with a brefe summary of the principall matters set before euery
part called Passus. Wherevnto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce
Plowman, neuer imprinted with the booke before. ſ Imprynted at
London, by Owen Rogers, dwellyng neare vnto great Saint Bartelmewes
Gate, at the sygne of the Spred Egle. 9 The yere of our Lorde God,
a thousand, fyne hundred, thre score and one. The . XXI. daye of the
Moneth of Februarye. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. (AC-
cording to Skeat, this is a careless reprint of Crowley's third impression. )
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Ed. Wright, T. 2 vols. 1842.
Second and revised edition, 1856. New edition, 1895.
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de
Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoan, by William Langland.
Ed. Skeat, W. W. E. E. T. S. 1869.
The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman by William Langland
(or Langley). [Prologue and Passus, 1-v11. ) Ed. Skeat, W. W. Oxford,
1896. See also editions of various years from 1874 to 1893.
(C-text. )
Visio Willi de Petro Ploughman, Item Visiones ejusdem de Dowel, Dobet, et
Dobest. Or the Vision of William concerning Piers Plouhman, and the
Visions of the same concerning the Origin, Progress, and Perfection of
the Christian Life. Ascribed to Robert Langland, a secular Priest of
the county of Salop; and written in, or immediately after, the year
MCCCLXII. Printed from a MS contemporary with the author, collated
with two others of great antiquity, and exhibiting the original text;
together with an introductory discourse, a perpetual commentary, annota-
tions, and a glossary. Ed. Whitaker, T. D. 1813.
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, Dowel, Dobet, and
Dobest, by William Langland (1393 A. D. ). . . Richard the Redeless, by
the same author. (1399 A. D. ) The Crowned King, by another hand,
Ed. Skeat, W. W. E. E. T. S. 1873.
(A-text. )
The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de
Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit
et Resoun, by William Langland.
(1362 A. D. ) Ed. Skeat, W. W. E. E. T. S. 1867.
(The Three Texts. )
The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman in three parallel texts
together with Richard the Redeless. By William Langland (about
1362-1399 A. D. ). Ed. from numerous manuscripts with Preface, Notes
and a Glossary by Skeat, W. W. 2 vols. Oxford, 1886.
The edition for the E. E. T. S. , by Skeat, was begun in 1867 with the publi-
cation of the A-text, and completed in 1884 with the publication of Part iv,
containing General Introduction, Notes, Indexes and Glossary.
E. L. II.
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The first edition is that in Thynne's second edition of Chancer, 1542. It is
reprinted in all the old editions of the Canterbury Tales. It is also
printed in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 1, 304-345, with the title,
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Wyclif in both the places just cited. It does not appear in the list of
Wyclif's writings in Bale's Summarium, though 'Petrum Agricolam,
lib. i' (Piers the Plowman? ), is in the list, fo. 157 rº. There have been
three editions since: (1) in Speght's Chaucer (2nd ed. ), 1602; (2) in
Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 11, 16–39; (3) in Skeat's Chaucerian
and Other Pieces, 191-204.
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Printed in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 11, 39–114.
The Crowned King.
The only edition is that of Skeat in his E. E. T. S. edition of Piers the Plowman,
III, 523-534.
Death and Liffe and The Scotish Ffeilde.
The latter was first published from an imperfect MS by John Robson in
Chetham Miscellanies, vol. 11 (Chetham Soc. 1855); a complete edition
from both of the known MSS is given by Hales and Furnivall, Bishop
Percy's Folio MS, 1867, vol. I, pp. 199-234. Death and Liffe is published
in the same collection, vol. III, pp. 49–75, ed. Skeat; and a modernised
version is printed by Edward Arber, The Dunbar Anthology, 1901,
pp. 126-141.
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Bellezza, P. Langland's Figur des Plowman' in der neuesten englischen
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Bernard, E. William Langland; a Grammatical Treatise. Bonn, 1874.
Bradley, H. The Plowman's Tale. Athenaeum, 12 July 1902.
The Misplaced Leaf of Piers the Plowman. Ibid. 21 April 1906.
Brown, J. T. T. Huchown of the Awle Ryale and his poems examined in
the light of recent criticism. Glasgow, 1902. Reviewed by Henderson, T. F.
Englische Studien, XXXII, 124 f.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. 1, p. 160 and pp. 200 ff.
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Fischer, J. and Mennicken, F. Zur mittelenglischen Stabzeile. Bonner
Beiträge zur Anglistik, xi, 139-154.
Günther, E. Englisches Leben im vierzehnten Jahrhundert. Dargestellt
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author. 1894. See also his review of Skeat, below.
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