Now God, that alle good gyveth, Graunte his soule reste That this first wroot to wissen men What poverte was to mene!
The viker hadde fer hoom, And faire took his leeve; And I awakned therwith, And wroot as me mette.
Whitaker's text here adds a passage relating to Tobias:-- Marie Magdalene By mores levede and dewes; Love and leel byleyve Heeld lyf and soule togedere.
Maria Egyptiaca Eet in thyrty wynter Bote thre lytel loves, And love was her souel.
The definition given in Piers Ploughman is taken from the Dialogues of Secundus, where it is thus expressed:--"Quid est paupertas?
The pope appointed many titular bishops of foreign sees in which, from the nature of circumstances, they could not possibly reside, and who therefore were a burthen upon the church.
To hir he wroot yet ofte tyme al newe Ful pitously, he lefte it nought for slouthe, Biseching hir that, sin that he was trewe, 1585 She wolde come ayein and holde hir trouthe.
And fynally she wroot and seyde him thanne, She wolde come, ye, but she niste whanne.
And to Criseyde, his owene lady dere, 1315 He wroot right thus, and seyde as ye may here.
But, certes, I suppose that Avicen Wroot never in no canon, ne in no fen, 890 Mo wonder signes of empoisoning Than hadde thise wrecches two, er hir ending.
Playter wroot to me that she wolde have leyde owt for me Cli.
But to him first she wroot and faste him prayed He wolde come, and her deliver of peyne, As I reherse shal a word or tweyne.
O Thought, thatwroot al that I mette, And in the tresorie hit shette Of my brayn!
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