And thow medlest with makynges · and myghtest go sey thi sauter,
And bidde for hem that giveth the bred · for there ar bokes ynowe
To telle men what Dowel is.... (B. xii. 16.)
[642] He seems to have written at this time the fragment called by Mr. Skeat: "Richard the Redeless," and attributed by the same with great probability to our author.
[643] C. iii. 211 ff.
[644] B. iii. 328.
[645] B. iv. 3.
[646] Daughter of Piers Plowman:
Hus douhter hihte Do-ryght-so- · other-thy-damme-shal-the-bete.
(C. ix. 81.)
[647] See in particular Gloton's confession, with a wonderfully realistic description of an English tavern, C. vii. 350.
[648] "Paradise Lost," canto vi. 601; invention of guns, 470.
[649] B. Prol. 112.