Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

11.310: Psallite Deo nostro, psallite; quoniamrex terrae Deus Israel, psallite
sapienter.
11.311: "The bisshop shal be blamed bifore God, as I leve,
11.312: That crouneth swiche Goddes knyghtes that konneth noght sapienter
11.313: Synge, ne psalmes rede, ne seye a masse of the day.
11.314: Ac never neither is blamelees, the bisshop ne the chapeleyn;
11.315: For hir either is endited, and that of "Ignorancia
11.316: Non excusat episcopos nec ydiotes preestes.'
11.317: "This lokynge on lewed preestes hath doon me lepe from poverte
—
11.318: The which I preise, ther pacience is, moore parfit than richesse.'
11.319: Ac muche moore in metynge thus with me gan oon dispute —
11.320: And slepynge I seigh al this; and sithen cam Kynde
11.321: And nempned me by my name, and bad me nymen hede,
11.322: And thorugh the wondres of this world wit for to take.
11.323: And en a mountaigne that Myddelerthe highte, as me tho
thoughte,
11.324: I was fet forth by ensaumples to knowe,
11.325: Thorugh ech a creature, Kynde my creatour to lovye.
11.326: I seigh the sonne and the see and the sond after,
11.327: And where that briddes and beestes by hir make thei yeden,
11.328: Wilde wormes in wodes, and wonderful foweles
11.329: With fleckede fetheres and of fele colours.
11.330: Man and his make I myghte se bothe;
11.331: Pverte and plentee, both pees and werre,
11.332: Blisse and bale — bothe I seigh at ones,
11.333: And how men token Mede and Mercy refused.
11.334: Reson I seigh soothly sewen all beestes
11.335: In etynge, in drynkynge and in engendrynge of kynde.
11.336: And after cours of concepcion noon toke kepe of oother
11.337: As whan thei hadde ryde in rotey tume; anoonright therafter
11.338: Males drowen hem to males amornynge by hemselve,
11.339: And [femelles to femelles ferded and drowe].
11.340: Ther ne was cow ne cowkynde that conceyved hadde
11.341: That wolde belwe after bole, ne boor after sowe.
11.342: Both hors and houndes and alle othere beestes
11.343: Medled noght with hir makes that [mid] fole were.
11.344: Briddes I biheld that in buskes made nestes;
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