[9176]. Psalm lxxv, 6.
[9178]. Psalm lxxii, 20. Whitaker's Passus sextus de Dowel ends with this quotation.
[9317]. Both in the Vision of Piers Ploughman, and in the Creed, there are frequent expressions of indignation at the extravagant expenditure in painting the windows of the abbeys and churches. It must not be forgotten that a little later the same feeling as that exhibited in these satires led to the destruction of many of the noblest monuments of medieval art.
[9344]. Mat. xix, 23, 24.
[9347]. Apocal. xiv, 13.
[9352]. Matth. v, 3.
[9452]. Compare the defence of poverty in Chaucer (Cant. T. 6774):—
Juvenal saith of poverte merily:
The poore man, whan he goth by the way,
Beforn the theves he may sing and play.