Langland, Piers Plowman (C-text) - Revision history

Wtrettien: /* DREAM VII */

2010-10-10T21:28:39Z

DREAM VII

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	:dreamer roams through Contrition and Confession till he comes to Unity, where Conscience was constable		:dreamer roams through Contrition and Confession till he comes to Unity, where Conscience was constable

			:Antichrist, seven sins and priest launch attacks against Unity

			::Conscience cries for Clergy's help

			:friars come to help but they don't know enough; Conscience gives up on them

			::Need tells Conscience says the friars should live like beggars

			:Conscience laughs, calls in and comforts friars

			::Conscience says to friars he'll help as long as they live according to their rule, get rid of logic and learn to love

			:Envy hears; orders friars back to school

			dreamer/prophetic voice breaks in to discourse on parish priests

			:Envy gives university fellowships to friars

			:Hypocrisy launches an assault

			:Conscience has Peace bolt the gates; calls in doctor to help those sick or wounded with sin

			:people don't like the doctor; ask for Friar Flatterer

			::Contrition encourages Conscience to let Friar Flatterer in

			::Conscience doesn't want to but assents

			:Ffriar gets a letter from a lord giving him a parish, goes to a bishop; knocks on the gate where Conscience is

			:Peace begins to unlock the gate

			::Friar asks to speak with Contrition

			::Peace says he's sick

			::Friar says he's a surgeon, can prepare salves

			::Peace asks his name

			::Friar responds he is Penetrans domos

			::Peace tells him to leave

			::Courteous-speech tells Peace to open the gates

			:Friar enters, greets Conscience

			::Conscience welcomes him, asks if he can heal Contrition, who leaves plasters on from Lent to Lent

			::Friar thinks this is too long

			:Friar tests, offers him plaster for private payment

			::Friar asks for silver

			:Friar smooth-talks Contrition

			:Sloth and Pride see Contrition give up, come to attack Conscience

			:Conscience cries for Clergy's help, and asks Contrition to hold the gate

			::Peace says he's drowned; Friar has enchanted them with treatments and sleeping potions

			::Conscience swears to become a pilgrim searching Piers, who can destroy Pride

			:Conscience cries out for Grace

			dreamer awakes

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2010-10-10T20:10:37Z

AWAKE

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	('''PASSUS XXII''')		('''PASSUS XXII''')

			dreamer walks, sad and aching at heart; meets Need

			:Need calls him a phony, asks why he didn't excuse himself like the king; reproaches dreamer

			dreamer falls asleep

			=== DREAM VII ===

			:dreamer sees Antichrist come, rules over all people, friars, followers

			::Conscience advises fools into Holy Church

			:Nature hears Conscience; sends illness; Death strikes down all, both high and low

			:Conscience asks Nature to lay off to see if the people will amend

			:Fortune begins flattering the few survivrs, sending Lechery

			:Covetousness came to destroy people

			::Conscience jokes that he wishes Covetousness were Christian, since he's such a good fighter

			:Life laughs, has his clothes stylishly slit and says Holiness is a joke, Honesty a waste of time, etc.

			::Life says Health and he will teach not to fear Death or Old Age

			:Life and his mistress Forgune attract Sloth, who marries Despair

			:Conscience warns Old Age, who waves away Deespair and tries to make confession

			:Life flees for fear to Physic, asks for relief

			:Old Age runs at Life and the Doctor, strikes Doctor dead

			::Life sees that surgery nor medicine can stop Old Age

			:Life rides to Revel, Old Age chases him; shaves off some of dreamer's head in the pursuit

			::dreamer complains about baldness

			:Old Age beats up dreamer

			:dreamer sees Nature pass by and Death draw near

			::dreamer cries to Kind to help him with Old Age, wants vengeance

			::Kind tells him to go to Unity, and learn some craft

			::dreamer asks Kind what craft is best to learn

			::Kind says learn to love, forget everything else

			::dreamer says he doesn't know how he'll earn a living

			::Kind says he'll never lack if he loves loyally

			:dreamer roams through Contrition and Confession till he comes to Unity, where Conscience was constable

Wtrettien: /* DREAM VI */

2010-10-10T19:43:11Z

DREAM VI

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	:Pride comes to injure Conscience and Christians		:Pride comes to injure Conscience and Christians

			::Pride threatens to break house of Unity

			::Conscience counsels Christians to hold fast in Unity; Grace alone will help them defeat Pride

			:Common Sense came, told Conscience to dig a ditch around Unity, so that Holy Church became a fort

			:Conscience commands Christians to dig

			::Conscience says Pride can't defeat them; giving of Eucharist; Piers has been given pardon for all who Redde quot debes

			::Common people are confused; ask if they're being asked to give back all they owe before going to communion?

			::Conscience says yes

			::brewer refuses

			::Conscience says he'll never be saved then

			::uneducated vicar points out that many men are lost, then; even the pope is imperfect (Wycliffite)

			::lord agrees, says he holds it right and reasonable to take from his reeve

			::king agrees, too, says he can rule as he likes

			::Conscience agrees, on condition he rules with reason and truth

			:vicar takes his leave, has far to travel

			dreamer awakes, writes down his dream

			=== AWAKE ===

			('''PASSUS XXII''')

Wtrettien: /* AWAKE */

2010-10-10T19:36:15Z

AWAKE

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 ::Piers says to harrow natural intelligence

Wtrettien: /* AWAKE */

2010-10-10T17:48:58Z

AWAKE

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	('''PASSUS XXI''')		('''PASSUS XXI''')

			dreamer writes what he's learned; goes to mass for communion

			dreamer falls asleep when men went to offering

			:dreamer sees Piers painted bloody like Christ

			::dreamer asks Conscience if this is christ?

			::Conscience says they're Piers' arms and colors, but he who comes so bloody is christ

			::dreamer asks why he's called Christ, since Jews call him Jesus?

			::Conscience launches in to long speech on the life of Christ

			:Conscience counsels dreamer to kneel

			:dreamer sees spiritus paraclitus strike Piers and his followers like lightening, letting them know many languages; dreamer is afraid

			:Conscience kneels

			::Conscience says this is Christ's messanger, orders dreamer to kneel and welcome him

			:dreamer kneels and sings for God's Grace

			:Grace goes with Piers and counsels him and Conscience to summon the commons

			::Grace says he'll divide grace with all kinds of creatures; warns against antichrist becoming pope

			:Grace gives each man grace to guide and protect himselves

			::Grace recommends they crown Conscience king and make Craft the steward; Piers is made proctor and reeve, provider and plowman on earth to cultivate truth

			:Grace give Piers a team of four oxen (Luke, Mark, Matthew and John); then four horses (Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory and Jerome; seeds (the cardinal virtues)

			:Piers sows the seeds

			::Piers says to harrow natural intelligence

Wtrettien: /* DREAM V */

2010-10-10T17:21:36Z

DREAM V

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	::Lucifer says he's too powerful; but hopes that God will allow him his rights		::Lucifer says he's too powerful; but hopes that God will allow him his rights

			::Satan agrees, but says Lucifer used deceit in getting those souls

			::Goblin/Devil says it's true, he used deceit

			::Fiend advises they flee

			prophetic voice briefly breaks out in digression about liars

			:light again commands they unlock hell

			::Lucifer ask what lord he is

			::voice responds the lord that made all things

			:bars of hell break; the trapped souls flee; Lucifer can't look into the light

			::Lord tells Lucifer he got them by right and reason, since Lucifer beguiled them; grace wins back what guile stole

			:God binds Lucifer in chains

			::Peace sings

			::Truth calls a truce

			::Peace says no one should know they ever quarreled

			:::Righteousness agrees

			:Peace, Truth, Righeousness kiss

			:singing, bells

			=== AWAKE ===

			dreamer awakes, tells Kit and his daughter Calote to go reverence God's resurrection

			('''PASSUS XXI''')

Wtrettien: /* DREAM V */

2010-10-10T17:06:16Z

DREAM V

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	=== DREAM V ===		=== DREAM V ===

			:dreamer sees someone like the Samaritan and Piers righting forth

			::Faith cries out to him

			::dreamer asks Faith what this means, who is coming to joust in Jerusalem?

			::Faith say it's Jesus to fetch what the Fiend claims, the fruit of Piers the plowman

			::dreamer asks if Piers is in this place

			::Faith says Jesus will joust in Piers' armor

			::dreamer asks who will joust with Jesus, Jews or scribs/

			::Faith says no, the fiend

			:Pilate comes; Jews cry out "Crucify!"

			:prosecutor comes before Pilate

			::prosecutor says Jesus mocked the temple of the Jews

			::court officer cries crucify! he practices witchcraft!

			:garland of thorns set on jesus' head

			:Jesus nailed to cross

			:hard rock of earth/temple split, dead men come out of graves

			::dead man says no one will know who succeeds, life or death, until sunrise

			:thieves on the cross; no one bold enough to touch Christ's body

			:Longinus the blind Jew sent to joust with Jesus; pierces his heart; blood opens his eyes

			::Longinus cries for mercy

			::Faith upbraids false Jews

			:dreamer withdraws to hell in fear

			:dreamer sees Mercy come from the west, Truth from the east

			::Truth asks what is going on

			::Mercy says it's a thing of joy

			::Truth rejects what Mercy says; says something in hell can never leave, quotes scripture

			::Mercy says grace will make a good end and deceive the deceiver

			::Truth says she sees Righteousness come running

			::Mercy says she sees Peace clothed in patience come from the south

			:Peace clothed in patience approaches; Righteousness reverenced Peace in her rich clothing, asks where Peace is going

			::Peace says she's going to see many in hell, Adam and Eve and Moses; God gave her and her sister Mercy to mankind to bail them out

			:Peace shows a letter patent of the deed

			::Righteousness is incredulous

			::Peace promises to prove it

			:Book comes

			::Book bears witness

			::Truth tells them to be quiet; sees a spirit requesting the gates be opened

			::loud voice in light says to Lucifer to undo the gates

			::Satan says to Hell the light will ruin them; asks for chains to bar up gates

			::Lucifer says he's too powerful; but hopes that God will allow him his rights

Wtrettien: /* DREAM IV */

2010-10-10T16:32:50Z

DREAM IV

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	('''PASSUS XIX''')		('''PASSUS XIX''')

			::Hope/Moses says he has a commandment to rule all realms

			::dreamer asks if its sealed

			::Hope says no; he seeks him who has the seal, Christ

			::dreamer asks to see letters

			:Hope gives a hard rock that says "Love God and thy neighbor"

			:dreamer sees in gilt pen it written "On these two commandments dependeth the whole law"

			::dreamer asks if all Hope's lod's leters are here

			::Hope says yes

			::Faith says he's being truthful, shows Old Testament people who believed in Old Law

			::dreamer is incredulous, asks about trinity and new law

			:Samaritan comes riding fast, meets Abraham and Hope in a wild wilderness where theives had bound a man

			:Faith sees the man; runs away

			:Hope sees the man; backs away

			:Samaritan helps the man, takes him to an inn, pays for his care

			:Samaritan rides away; Faith and Hope follow after; dreamer pursues

			::dreamer tells Samaritan how Faith and Hope were afraid

			::Samaritan says Faith and Hope alone can't restore sick men, but the blood of Christ

			::dreamer asks about Trinity

			::Samaritan says it's true, likens trinity to fist, finger and palm of God; says rich men have a hard time getting into heaven;

			::dreamer asks if he dies now and is sorry for his sins, will he be saved?

			::Samaritan says yes, if he is true and makes restitution

			:Samritan vanishes like wind

			dreamer awakes

			=== AWAKE ===

			('''PASSUS XX''')

			dreamer wanders like a vagrant

			dreamer lays down at Lent, sleeps

			=== DREAM V ===

Wtrettien: /* DREAM IV */

2010-10-10T15:58:31Z

DREAM IV

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 ::Faith says he say all three as God walk by his gate one summer

Wtrettien: /* DREAM III */

2010-10-10T15:52:41Z

DREAM III

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	:dreamer falls asleep		:dreamer falls asleep

			::DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

	::Fortune fetches the dreamer, takes him to the land of longing		::Fortune fetches the dreamer, takes him to the land of longing