The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 09 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDEBBFAFGFCHCBDB GCHIIAB FJCKABDJAJ JJBGHLBBJAFB GBJBGBGCBBHBDCBBBAAH MJBFGCAA JBKLFBJBBFAGBCENFABB BBBBDFB HAGBABBABCBBOBBAHMBC BBAALDBHB CB BABG BAABBBHGAACB| 'Sire Dowel dwelleth ' quod Wit 'noght a day hennes | A |
| In a castel that Kynde made of foure kynnes thynges | A |
| Of erthe and eyr is it maad medled togideres | A |
| With wynd and with water wittily enjoyned | B |
| Kynde hath closed therinne craftily withalle | C |
| A lemman that he loveth lik to hymselve | D |
| Anima she hatte to hir hath envye | E |
| A proud prikere of Fraunce Princeps huius mundi | B |
| And wolde wynne hire awey with wiles and he myghte | B |
| 'Ac Kynde knoweth this wel and kepeth hire the bettre | F |
| And hath doon hire with Sire Dowel Duc of thise marches | A |
| Dobet is hire damyselle Sire Doweles doughter | F |
| To serven this Iady leelly bothe late and rathe | G |
| Dobest is above bothe a bisshopes peere | F |
| That he bit moot be do he bidd eth hem alle | C |
| By his leryng is lad that lady Anima | H |
| 'Ac the Constable of that castel that kepeth hem alle | C |
| Is a wis knyght withalle Sire Inwit he hatte | B |
| And hath fyve faire sones by his firste wyve | D |
| Sire Se wel and Sey wel and Here wel the hende | B |
| Sire Werch wel with thyn hand a wight man of strengthe | G |
| And Sire Godefray Go wel grete lordes alle | C |
| Thise sixe ben set to save this lady Anima | H |
| Til Kynde come or sende to kepen hire hymselve ' | I |
| 'What kynnes thyng is Kynde ' quod 'kanstow me telle ' | I |
| ' Kynde ' quod Wit 'is creatour of alle kynnes thynges | A |
| Fader and formour of al that evere was maked | B |
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| And that is the grete God that gynnyng hadde nevere | F |
| Lord of lif and of light of lisse and of peyne | J |
| Aungeles and alle thyng arn at his wille | C |
| Ac man is hym moost lik of marc and of shape | K |
| For thorugh the word that he warp woxen forth beestes | A |
| Dixit et facta sunt | B |
| 'A c he made man moost li k to hymself | D |
| And Eve of his ryb bon withouten any mene | J |
| For he was synguler hymself and seide Eaciamus | A |
| As who seith '' Moore moot herto than my word oone | J |
| My myght moot helpe now with my speche '' | - |
| Right as a lord sholde make lettres and hym lakked no parchemyn | J |
| Though he wiste write never so wel if he hadde no penne | J |
| The lettre for al the lordshipe I leve were nevere ymaked | B |
| 'And so it semeth there he seide as the Bible telleth | G |
| Faciamus hominem ad imaginem nostram | H |
| He moste werche with his word and his wit shewe | L |
| And in this manere was man maad thorugh myght of God almyghty | B |
| With his word and werkmanshipe and with lif to laste | B |
| And thus God gaf hym a goost of the godhede of hevene | J |
| And of his grete grace graunted hym blisse | A |
| And that is lif that ay shal laste to al his lynage after | F |
| And that is the castel that Kynde made Caro it hatte | B |
| And is as muche to mene as 'man with a soule ' | - |
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| And that he wroghte with werk and with word bothe | G |
| Thorgh myght of the mageste man was ymaked | B |
| ' Inwit and alle wittes yclosed ben therinne | J |
| For love of the lady Anima that lif is ynempned | B |
| Over al in mannes body he o walketh and wandreth | G |
| Ac in the herte is hir hoom and hir mooste reste | B |
| Ac Inwit is in the heed and to the herte he loketh | G |
| What Anima is leef or looth he Iat hire at his wille | C |
| For after the grace of God the gretteste is Inwit | B |
| 'Muche wo worth that man that mysruleth his Inwit | B |
| And that ben glotons glubberes hir God is hire wombe | H |
| Quorum deus venter est | B |
| For thei serven Sathan hir soules shal he have | D |
| That lyven synful lif here hir soule is lich the devel | C |
| And alle that lyven good lif are lik to God almyghty | B |
| Qui manet in caritate in Deo manet c | B |
| 'Allas that drynke shal fordo that God deere boughte | B |
| And dooth God forsaken hem that he shoop to his liknesse | A |
| Amen dico vobis nescio vos Et alibi Et dimisi eos | A |
| secundum desideria eorum | H |
| ' Fooles that fauten Inwit I fynde that Holy Chirche | M |
| Sholde fynden hem that hem fauteth and faderlese children | J |
| And widewes that han noght wherwith to wynnen hem hir foode | B |
| Madde men and maydenes that helplese were | F |
| Alle thise lakken Inwit and loore bihoveth | G |
| 'Of this matere I myghte make a long tale | C |
| And fynde fele witnesses among the foure doctours | A |
| And that I lye noght of that I lere thee Luc bereth witnesse | A |
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| 'Godfader and godmoder that seen hire godchildren | J |
| At myseise and at myschief and mowe hem amende | B |
| Shul pre ve penaunce in purgatorie but thei hem helpe | K |
| For moore bilongeth to the litel barn er he the lawe knowe | L |
| Than nempnynge of a name and he never the wiser | F |
| Sholde no Cristene creature cryen at the yate | B |
| Ne faille payn ne potage and prelates dide as thei sholden | J |
| A Jew wolde noght se a Jew go janglyng for defaute | B |
| For alle the mebles on this moolde and he amende it myghte | B |
| 'Allas that a Cristene creature shal be unkynde til another | F |
| Syn Jewes that we jugge Judas felawes | A |
| Eyther helpeth oother of that that hym nedeth | G |
| Whi nel we Cristene of Cristes good as kynde be | B |
| As Jewes that ben oure loresmen Shame to us alle | C |
| The commune for hir unkyndenesse I drede me shul abye | E |
| ' Bisshopes shul be blamed for beggeres sake | N |
| He is jugged wors than Judas that yyveth a japer silver | F |
| And biddeth the beggere go for his broke clothes | A |
| Proditor est prelatus cum Iuda qui patrimonium Christi | B |
| minus distribuit Et alibi Perniciosus dispensator est | B |
| qui res pauperum Christi inutiliter consumit | B |
| He dooth noght wel that dooth thus ne drat noght God almyghty | B |
| Ne loveth noght Salomons sawes that Sapience taughte | B |
| Inicium sapiencie timor Domini | B |
| 'That dredeth God he dooth wel that dredeth hym for love | D |
| And noght for drede of vengeaunce dooth therfore the bettre | F |
| He dooth best that withdraweth hym by daye and by nyghte | B |
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| To spille any speche or any space of tyme | H |
| Qui offendit in uno in omnibus est reus | A |
| ' Tyn ynge of tyme Truthe woot the sothe | G |
| Is moost yhated upon erthe of hem that ben in hevene | B |
| And siththe to spille speche that spire is of grace | A |
| And Goddes gleman and a game of hevene | B |
| Wolde nevere the feithful fader his fithele were untempred | B |
| Ne his gleman a gedelyng a goere to tavernes | A |
| 'To alle trewe tidy men that travaille desiren | B |
| Oure Lord loveth hem and lent loude outher stille | C |
| Grace to go to hem and of gon hir liflode | B |
| Inquirentes autem Dominum non minuentur omni bono | B |
| 'In this world is Dowel trewe wedded libbynge folk | O |
| For thei mote werche and wynne and the world sustene | B |
| For of hir kynde thei come that Confessours ben nempned | B |
| Kynges and knyghtes kaysers and clerkes | A |
| Maidenes and martires out of o man come | H |
| The wif was maad the w y e for to helpe werche | M |
| And thus was wedlok ywroght with a mene persone | B |
| First by the fadres wille and the frendes conseille | C |
| And sithenes by assent of hemself as thei two myghte acorde | B |
| And thus was wedlok ywroght and God hymself it made | B |
| In erthe the heven is hymself was the witnesse | A |
| 'Ac fals folk feithlees theves and lyeres | A |
| Wastours and wrecches out of wedlok I trowe | L |
| Conceyved ben in yvel tyme as Caym was on Eve | D |
| Of swiche synfulle sherewes the Sauter maketh mynde | B |
| Concepit dolorem et peperit iniquitatem | H |
| And alle that come of that Caym come to yvel ende | B |
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| 'For God sente to Seem and seide by an aungel | C |
| 'Thyn issue in thyn issue I wol that thei be wedded | B |
| And noght thi kynde with Caymes ycoupled ne yspoused '' | - |
| ' Yet some ayein the sonde of Oure Saveour of hevene | B |
| Caymes kynde and his kynde coupled togideres | A |
| Til God wrathed with hir werkes and swich a word seide | B |
| ' That I makede man now it me forthynketh | G |
| Penitet me fecisse hominem ' | - |
| 'And com to Noe anon and bad hym noght lette | B |
| 'Swithe go shape a ship of shides and of bordes | A |
| Thyself and thi sones thre and sithen youre wyves | A |
| Busketh yow to that boot and bideth therinne | B |
| Til fourty daies be fulfild that flood have ywasshen | B |
| Clene awey the corsed blood that Caym hath ymaked | B |
| 'Bestes that now ben shul banne the tyme | H |
| That evere that cursed Caym coom on this erthe | G |
| Alle shul deye for his dedes by dales and hulles | A |
| And the foweles that fleen forth with othere beestes | A |
| Excepte oonliche of ech kynde a couple | C |
| That in t | B |
William Langland
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