The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2

by William Langland

And the benis y-grounde,

Thei hadde be ded be this day,

And dolven al warm.

Faitours for fer, etc.

[4194]. Thei corven here coppes, | and courtepies made. Whitaker, who translates it, "They carved wooden cups, and made themselves short cloaks." It ought to be, "They cut their copes to make courtpies (a kind of short cloaks) of them."

[4242]. Paul Epist. ad Galat. vi, 2.

[4251]. Scimus enim qui dixit, mihi vindicta, et ego retribuam. Paul. ad Heb. x, 30; conf. Paul. ad Rom. xii, 19.

[4256]. Luke xvi, 9.

[4272]. Propter frigus piger arare noluit. Prov. xx, 4.

[4306]. Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis, beatus es et bene tibi erit. Psal. cxxvii, 2.