Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

19.227: And wepne to fighte with whan Antecrist yow assailleth.'
19.228: And gaf ech man a grace to gye with hymselven,
19.229: That Ydelnesse encombre hym noght, ne Envye ne Pride:
19.229: Divisiones graciarum sunt.
19.230: Some [wyes] he yaf wit, with wordes to shewe —
19.231: Wit to wynne hir liflode with, as the world asketh,
19.232: As prechours and preestes, and prentices of lawe —
19.233: They lelly to lyve by labour of tonge,
19.234: And by wit to wissen othere is grace hem wolde teche.
19.235: And some he kennede craft and konnynge of sighte.
19.236: With sellynge and [by] buggynge hir bilyve to wynne.
19.237: And some he lered to laboure on lond and on watre,
19.238: And lyve by that labour — a lele lif and a trewe.
19.239: And some he taughte to tilie, to dyche and to thecche,
19.240: To wynne with hir liflode bi loore of his techynge.
19.241: And some to devyne and divide, [diverse] noumbres to kenne:
19.242: And some to compace craftily, and colours to make;
19.243: And some to se and to seye whit sholde bifalle,
19.244: Bothe of wele and of wo, telle it [wel] er it felle —
19.245: As astronomyens thorugh astronomye, and philosofres wise.
19.246: And some to ryde and to recovere that unrightfully was wonne:
19.247: He wissed hem wynne it ayein thorugh wightnesse of handes,
19.248: And fecchen it fro false men with Folvyles lawes.
19.249: And some he lered to lyve in longynge to ben hennes,
19.250: In poverte and in pacience to preie for alle Cristene.
19.251: And alle he lered to be lele, and ech a craft love oother,
19.252: And forbad hem alle debat — that noon [be] among hem.
19.253: "Though some be clenner than some, ye se wel," quod Grace,
19.254: "That he that useth the faireste craft, to the fouleste I kouthe have
put hym.
19.255: Thynketh [that alle craftes, quod Grace]. "cometh of my yifte;
19.256: Loketh that noon lakke oother, but loveth alle as bretheren.
19.257: "And who that moost maistries kan, be myldest of berynge;
19.258: And crouneth Conscience kyng, and maketh Craft youre stiward,
19.259: And after Craftes conseil clotheth yow and fede.
19.260: For I make Piers the Plowman my procuratour and my reve,
19.261: And registrer to receyve redde quod debes.
19.262: My prowor and my plowman Piers shal ben on erthe,
19.263: And for to tilie truthe a teeme shal he have.'
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