農夫ピアズの幻想／農夫ピアズの夢 — ウィリアム・ラングランド
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2 Author : William Langland Editor : Thomas Wright Release date : September 7, 2013 [eBook #43661] Most recently updated: October 23, 2024 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43661 Credits : Produced by Mark C. Orton, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF They appear in the text like this , and the explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked passage. In this edition line numbers are displayed on every tenth line—in the printed work they were synchronised to the pagination, with sometimes only one number per page. Lines marked = were printed AND COUNTED as two lines. Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I : see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43660 THE VISION AND CREED OF PIERS PLOUGHMAN. EDITED, FROM A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT, WITH A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND A GLOSSARY, B Y THOMAS WRIGHT , M.A. F.S.A. &c. Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL. II. SECOND AND REVISED EDITION. LONDON: REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND. 1887. Passus Decimus Quartus, etc. " 8900 HAVE but oon hool hater," quod Haukyn; "I am the lasse to blame, Though it be soiled and selde clene: I slepe therinne o nyghtes. And also I have an houswif, Hewen and children,— Uxorem duxi, et ideo non possum venire. — That wollen by-molen it many tyme, Maugree my chekes. It hath be laved in Lente 8910 And out of Lente bothe, With the sope of siknesse, That seketh wonder depe, And with the losse of catel, Looth for to a-gulte God of any good man, By aught that I wiste; And was shryven of the preest That gaf me for my synnes To penaunce pacience 8920 And povere men to fede, Al for coveitise of my cristendom In clennesse to kepen it. And kouthe I nevere, by Crist! Kepen it clene an houre, That I ne soiled it with sighte Or som ydel speche, Or thorugh werk, or thorugh word, Or wille of myn herte, That I ne flobre it foule 8930 Fro morwe til even." "And I shal kenne thee," quod Conscience, "Of contricion to make That shal clawe thi cote Of alle kynnes filthe. Cordis contritio, etc. Do-wel shal wasshen and wryngen it Thorugh a wis confessour. Oris confessio, etc. Do-bet shal beten it and bouken it 8940 As bright as any scarlet, And engreyven it with good wille And Goddes grace to amende the, And sithen sende thee to satisfaccion For to sowen it after. Satisfactio Do-best. "Shal nevere cheeste by-molen it, Ne mothe after biten it, Ne fend ne fals man Defoulen it in thi lyve. 8950 Shal noon heraud ne harpour Have a fairer garnement Than Haukyn the actif man, And thow do by my techyng; Ne no mynstrall be moore worth Amonges povere and riche, Than Haukyns wif the wafrer, With his activa vita ." "And I shal purveie thee paast," quod Pacience, "Though no plough erye, 8960 And flour to fede folk with As best be for the soule, Though nevere greyn growed, Ne grape upon vyne. To alle that lyveth and loketh Liflode wolde I fynde, And that y-nogh shal noon faille Of thyng that hem nedeth, We sholde noght be to bisy Abouten oure liflode," 8970 Ne solliciti sitis, etc. Volucres cœli Deus pascit, etc. Patientes vincunt. Thanne laughed Haukyn a litel, And lightly gan swerye, "Who so leveth yow, by oure Lord! I leve noght he be blessed." "No," quod Pacience paciently; And out of his poke hente Vitailles of grete vertues 8980 For alle manere beestes, And seide, "Lo here liflode y-nogh! If oure bileve be trewe. For lent nevere was lif, But liflode were shapen, Wher-of or wher-fore Or wher-by to libbe. "First the wilde worm Under weet erthe, Fissh to lyve in the flood, 8990 And in the fir the criket, The corlew by kynde of the eyr Moost clennest flessh of briddes, And bestes by gras and by greyn And by grene rootes, In menynge that alle men Myghte the same Lyve thorugh leel bileve And love, as God witnesseth." Quodcunque petieritis a patre in 9000 nomine meo, etc. Et alibi: Non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo quod procedit de ore Dei. But I lokede what liflode it was That Pacience so preisede; And thanne was it a pece of the pater-noster, Fiat voluntas tua. "Have, Haukyn," quod Pacience, "And et this whan the hungreth, 9010 Or whan thow clomsest for cold, Or clyngest for drye; Shul nevere gyves thee greve, Ne gret lordes wrathe, Prison ne peyne; For patientes vincunt . By so that thow be sobre Of sighte and of tonge, In etynge and in handlynge, And in alle thi fyve wittes, 9020 Darstow nevere care for corn, Ne lynnen cloth ne wollen, Ne for drynke, ne deeth drede, But deye as God liketh, Or thorugh hunger or thorugh hete, At his wille be it. For if thow lyve after his loore, The shorter lif the bettre. Si quis amat Christum, Mundum non diliget istum. 9030 "For thorugh his breeth beestes woxen And a-brood yeden. Dixit et facta sunt, etc. Ergo thorugh his breeth mowen Men and beestes lyven, As holy writ witnesseth, Whan men seye hir graces. Aperis tu manum tuam, et imples omne animal benedictione. "It is founden that fourty wynter 9040 Folk lyvede withouten tulying; And out of the flynt sprong the flood That folk and beestes dronken; And in Elyes tyme Hevene was y-closed, That no reyn ne roon; 9046 Thus rede men in bokes That many wyntres men lyveden, And no mete ne tulieden. " Sevene slepe , as seith the book, Sevene hundred wynter, And lyveden withouten liflode, And at the laste thei woken. And if men lyvede as mesure wolde, Sholde nevere moore be defaute Amonges cristene creatures, If