Piers Plowman
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But the most direct antecedent of Big Mouth’s world of bawdy personifications might be the alliterative 14th-century dream vision poem Piers Plowman.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2018
“So hard it is,” says a character named Hawkin in Piers Plowman, “to live and do sin. Sin pursues us always.”
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2018
In the 14th Century Vision of Piers Plowman the poet notes ironically that if you are rich friars will pray for you "pol bi pol" - that is, all of them together.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2015
Piers Plowman, written by William Langland in 1362, reveals the hard life of English peasants:
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
It is thus used in Piers Plowman, where, however, the goliard still rhymes in Latin, and in Chaucer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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