[[492]] Langland, Piers Plowman.
[[493]] 'A Concise Poem on ... Shepton Mallet,' by Richd. Watts; printed in The Young Man's Looking Glass, 1641. With this may be compared Deloney's 'Pleasant History of John Winchcombe (Jack of Newbury),' written some fifty years earlier.—V. C. H. Berks., i. 388-9.
[[494]]
'Then to another room came they
Where children were, in poor array,
And every one sat picking wool,
The finest from the coarse to pull.'
[[495]]
'Two hundred men, the truth is so,
Wrought in their looms, all in a row;