Thow art lettred a litel:—
Who lerned thee on boke?"
"Abstynence the abbesse," quod Piers,
"Myn a.b.c. me taughte;
And Conscience cam afterward,
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And kenned me muche moore."
"Were thow a preest," quod he,
"Thou myghtest preche where thou sholdest,
As divinour in divinité,