Piers Plowman
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“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
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
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
Piers Plowman calls the tree Eller, a name that survives in Kent, Sussex, Lincoln, East Yorks, and Cheshire.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
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