The Vision of Pierce Plowman, now fyrste imprynted by Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Ely rentes in Holburne. Anno Domini. 1505 (for 1550). Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Two other impressions, both said to be 'nowe the seconde time imprinted,' were issued by Crowley in the same year; see Skeat's editions for descriptions. The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy, with a brefe summary of the principall matters set before euery part called Passus. Wherevnto is also annexed the Crede of Pierce Plowman, neuer imprinted with the booke before. ¶Imprynted at London, by Owen Rogers, dwellyng neare vnto great Saint Bartelmewes Gate, at the sygne of the Spred Egle. ¶The yere of our Lorde God, a thousand, fyue hundred, thre score and one. The .XXI. daye of the Moneth of Februarye. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. (According to Skeat, this is a careless reprint of Crowley's third impression.) The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Ed. Wright, T. 2 vols. 1842. Second and revised edition, 1856. New edition, 1895. The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Besoun, by William Langland. Ed. Skeat, W. W. E.E.T.S. 1869. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman by William Langland (or Langley). [Prologue and Passus, I-VII.] Ed. Skeat, W. W. Oxford, 1896. See also editions of various years from 1874 to 1893. (C-text.) Visio Willi de Petro Ploughman, Item Visiones ejusdem de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest. Or the Vision of William concerning Piers Plouhman, and the Visions of the same concerning the Origin, Progress, and Perfection of the Christian Life. Ascribed to Robert Langland, a secular Priest of the county of Salop; and written in, or immediately after, the year MCCCLXII. Printed from a MS contemporary with the author, collated with two others of great antiquity, and exhibiting the original text; together with an introductory discourse, a perpetual commentary, annotations, and a glossary. Ed. Whitaker, T. D. 1813. The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, Dowel, Dobet, and Dobest, by William Langland (1393 A.D.)... Richard the Redeless, by the same author. (1399 A.D.) The Crowned King, by another hand, Ed. Skeat, W. W. E.E.T.S. 1873. (A-text.) The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoun, by William Langland. (1362 A.D.) Ed. Skeat, W. W. E.E.T.S. 1867. (The Three Texts.) The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman in three parallel texts together with Richard the Redeless. By William Langland (about 1362-1399 A.D.). Ed. from numerous manuscripts with Preface, Notes and a Glossary by Skeat, W. W. 2 vols. Oxford, 1886. The edition for the E.E.T.S., by Skeat, was begun in 1867 with the publication of the A-text, and completed in 1884 with the publication of Part IV, containing General Introduction, Notes, Indexes and Glossary. E. L. II. 28 Mum, Sothsegger (Richard the Redeless). A Contemporary Alliterative Poem on the Deposition of King Richard II, from an unique MS at Cambridge. With the Latin Poem on the same King by Richard de Maydestone, from a MS at Oxford. Ed. Wright, T. Camden Soc. 1838. Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, composed during the period from the Accession of Edward III to that of Richard III. Ed. Wright, T. Rolls Series. 1859. Vol. 1, pp. 368-416. Also in Skeat's E.E.T.S. edition of Piers the Plowman. Vol. I (C-text), and his Parallel Text edition of Piers the Plowman, as above. The Parlement of the Thre Ages and Wynnere and Wastoure. The Parlement of the Thre Ages, an alliterative poem of the XIVth century, now first edited, from manuscripts in the British Museum, with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes containing the poem of Winnere and Wastoure, by Israel Gollancz. Roxburghe Club. 1897. Letters of the Insurgent Leaders. These are given partly in Walsingham, Historia Anglicana (Rolls Series, II, 33-4), and partly in Knighton, Chronicon (Rolls Series, II, 138-140). The earliest edition of Walsingham is that by Matthew Parker, 1574: Historia Brevis ab Edwardo I ad Henricum V. The earliest edition of Knighton is in Twysden's Scriptores X, 1652. Some of the letters are printed by Maurice, C. Edmund, English Popular Leaders, II: Tyler, Ball, Oldcastle, 1875, pp. 157-161; and by Trevelyan, G. M., England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1899 (3rd ed. 1900), pp. 203-4. Peres the Ploughmans Crede. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede. [Colophon:] Imprinted at London by Reynold Wolfe, anno Domini M.D.LIII. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede. Printed at the same time, 1561, as The Vision, by Owen Rogers, and often bound up with it. ... Pierce the Ploughmans Crede (about 1324 A.D.) . . . To which is appended God spede the Plough (about 1500 A.D.). Ed. Skeat, W. W. E.E.T.S. 1867. Pierce the Ploughmans Crede (about 1394 A.D.).... Ed. Skeat, W. W. Oxford, 1906. Also in 1842, 1856 and 1895 in Wright's editions of Piers the Plowman (B-text). The Ploughman's Tale. The first edition is that in Thynne's second edition of Chaucer, 1542. It is reprinted in all the old editions of the Canterbury Tales. It is also printed in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 1, 304-345, with the title, The Ploughman's Complaint; and in Skeat's Chaucerian and other Pieces, Oxford, 1897, pp. 147-190. Jacke Upland, etc. Jack vp Lande Compyled by the famous Geoffrey Chaucer. Ezechielis. xiii. ¶Wo be vnto you that dishonour me to me people for an handful of barlye & for a pece of bread. Cum priuilegio Regali. [Colophon :] ¶Prynted for Ihon Gough. Cum Priuilegio Regali. Hazlitt dates this edition c. 1540; Skeat, c. 1536. It is, apparently, the same that John Bale saw in the shop of John Daye; cf. Index, p. 274; and Catalogus, p. 454. Bale says it is wrongly ascribed to Chaucer; he ascribes it to Wyclif in both the places just cited. It does not appear in the list of Wyclif's writings in Bale's Summarium, though 'Petrum Agricolam, lib. i' (Piers the Plowman?), is in the list, fo. 157 r. There have been three editions since: (1) in Speght's Chaucer (2nd ed.), 1602; (2) in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 11, 16–39; (3) in Skeat's Chaucerian and Other Pieces, 191-204. The Reply of Friar Daw Topias and Jack Upland's Rejoinder. Printed in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, г, 39–114. The Crowned King. The only edition is that of Skeat in his E.E.T.S. edition of Piers the Plowman, III, 523-534 Death and Liffe and The Scotish Ffeilde. The latter was first published from an imperfect MS by John Robson in Chetham Miscellanies, vol. II (Chetham Soc. 1855); a complete edition from both of the known MSS is given by Hales and Furnivall, Bishop Percy's Folio MS, 1867, vol. 1, pp. 199-234. Death and Liffe is published in the same collection, vol. III, pp. 49-75, ed. Skeat; and a modernised version is printed by Edward Arber, The Dunbar Anthology, 1901, pp. 126-141. MISCELLANEOUS. Bellezza, P. Langland's Figur des 'Plowman' in der neuesten englischen Literatur. Englische Studien, XXI, 325 f. Bernard, E. William Langland; a Grammatical Treatise. Bonn, 1874. Bradley, H. The Plowman's Tale. Athenaeum, 12 July 1902. The Misplaced Leaf of Piers the Plowman. Ibid. 21 April 1906. Brown, J. T. T. Huchown of the Awle Ryale and his poems examined in the light of recent criticism. Glasgow, 1902. Reviewed by Henderson, T.F. Englische Studien, XXXII, 124 f. Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry. Vol. 1, p. 160 and pp. 200 ff. Günther, E. Englisches Leben im vierzehnten Jahrhundert. Dargestellt nach The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, by William Langland. Leipzig, 1889. Hanscom, Elizabeth D. The Argument of the Vision of Piers Plowman. Publications of the Mod. Lang. Ass. Am. IX, 403-450. Baltimore, 1894. Heath, H. F. in Traill's Social England, vol. II, pp. 225 ff. Hopkins, E. M. Character and Opinions of William Langland, as shown in the Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman. Kansas University Quarterly, April, 1894, pp. 234-288. The Education of William Langland. Princeton College Bulletin, April, 1895. Who wrote Piers Plowman? Kansas University Quarterly, April, 1898. Jack, A. E. The Autobiographical Elements in Piers Plowman. Journal of Germanic Philology, 11, 393–414. Jusserand, J. J. Les Anglais au Moyen Age: l'épopée mystique de William Langland. Paris, 1893. Piers Plowman: a Contribution to the History of English Mysticism. Translated from the French by M. E. R. Revised and enlarged by the author. 1894. See also his review of Skeat, below. Klapprott, L. Das End-e in W. Langland's Buch von Peter dem Pflüger, Review of Gollancz's edition of The Parlement of the Thre Ages, etc. Kron, R. William Langley's Buch von Peter dem Pflüger. Untersuchungen über das Handschriftenverhältnis, den Dialekt, die Unterschiede innerhalb der drei Redaktionen, sowie über Entstehungszeit und Verfasser. Er langen, 1885, and, first two chapters, Leipzig, 1885. Reviewed: Academy, 714, 26; by Brandl, A., Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1886, 518. Luick, K. Die englische Stabreimzeile im 14, 15, und 16 Jahrhundert. Anglia, XI, 392-443, 533-618. Geschichte der heimischen englischen Versarten. Paul's Grundriss der germanischen Philologie (2nd ed.), 11, 141-180. Manly, J. M. The Lost Leaf of 'Piers the Plowman.' Modern Philology, III, 359-366. Mensendieck, O. Charakterentwicklung und etisch-theologische Anschauungen des Verfassers von Piers the Plowman. London and Leipzig, 1900. Reviewed: Ph. Aronstein, Anglia, Beiblatt, XII, 292-4; Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1901, 1434; Wülker, R., Englische Studien, XXX1,285-88. Neilson, G. Sir Hew of Eglinton and Huchown of the Awie Ryale. Proc. Philos. Soc. Edinburgh, 1900-1. The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Athenaeum, No. 3881 (1901), 559–61. Huchown of the Awle Ryale. Glasgow, 1902. Reviewed by Henderson, T. F. Englische Studien, xxxII, 124 f. Pearson, C. H. Review (unsigned) of Skeat's edition of the A-text. North British Review, April, 1870. Rosenthal, F. Die alliterierende englische Langzeile im XIV Jahrhundert. Anglia, 1, 414-459. Schneider, A. Die mittelenglische Stabzeile im 15 u. 16 Jahrhundert. Bonner Beiträge zur Anglistik, XII, 102-172. Shute, Helen W. Piers Plowman, B, 1, 40f. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, c, 155 f. Skeat, W. W. Essay on Alliterative Poetry. Bishop Percy's Folio MS. Ed. Hales and Furnivall, 111, xi-xxxix. 1868. Notes on Piers Plowman. Part I. E.E.T.S. 1877. Piers Plowman; Notes, Glossary, etc. Part IV. E.E.T.S. 1884. These and other publications of Skeat's were later incorporated in his editions, see above. Important reviews of his publications are: Jusserand, J. J., Revue Critique, 1879, Nos. 44, 45; Garnett, J. M., Am. Jour. of Philol., 1887, 847-55; Bradley, Henry, Academy, No. 769, 70-71; Athenaeum, No. 3099, 380; Notes and Queries, 7th Series, 111, 99–100. Teichmann, E. Die Verbalflexion in William Langley's Buch von Peter dem Pflüger. Programm der Realschule zu Aachen. 1887. - Zur Stabreimzeile in William Langland's Buch von Peter dem Pflüger. Anglia, XIII, 140-174. Zum Texte von William Langland's Vision. Anglia, xv, 223-260. Wandschneider, W. Zur Syntax des Verbs in Langley's Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman. Leipzig, 1887. Warren, Kate M. Langland's Vision of Piers the Plowman, done into modern prose; with an introduction. 1895. 2nd ed. 1899. Ziepel, C. 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