Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

19.415: Or that acountede Conscience at a cokkes fethere!
19.416: I knew nevere Cardynal that he ne cam fro the Pope:
19.417: And we clerkes, whan thei come, for hir comunes paieth,
19.418: For hir pelure and hir palfreyes mete and pilours that hem folweth.
19.419: The comune clamat cotidie, ech a man til oother,
19.420: ""The contree is the corseder that cardinals come inne,
19.421: And ther thei ligge and lenge moost lecherie there regneth!"'
19.422: " Forthi,' quod this vicory, " by verray God! I wolde
19.423: That no cardynal coome among the comune peple,
19.424: But in hir holynesse helden hem stille
19.425: At Avynoun among Jewes — Cum sancto sanctus eris &c —
19.426: Or in Rome, as hir rule wole, the relikes to kepe;
19.427: And thow Conscience in kynges court, and sholdest nevere come
thennes;
19.428: And Grace, that thow gredest so of, gyour of alle clerkes ;
19.429: And Piers with his newe plough and ek with his olde
19.430: Emperour of al the world — that alle men were Cristene.
19.431: "Inparfit is that Pope, that al peple sholde helpe,
19.432: And s[ou]deth hem that sleeth swiche as he sholde save.
19.433: A[c] wel worthe Piers the Plowman, that pursueth God in
doynge,
19.434: Qui pluit super iustos et iniustos at ones,
19.435: And sent the sonne to save a cursed mannes tilthe
19.436: As brighte as to the beste man or to the beste womman.
19.437: Right so Piers the Plowrnan peyneth hym to tilye
19.438: As wel for a wastour and wenches of the stewes
19.439: As for hymself and hise servaunts, save he is first yserved.
19.440: [So blessed be Piers Plowman, that peyneth hym to tilye],
19.441: And travailleth and tilieth for a tretour also soore
19.442: As for a trewe tidy man, alle tymes ylike.
19.443: And worshiped be He that wroghte al, bothe good and wikke,
19.444: And suffreth that synfulle be til som tyme that thei repente.
19.445: And God [the Pope amende], that pileth Holy Kirke,
19.446: And cleymeth bifore the kyng to be kepere over Cristene,
19.447: And counteth noght though Cristene ben killed and robbed,
19.448: And fynt folk to fighte and Cristen blood to spille
19.449: Ayein the Olde Lawe and Newe Lawe, as Luc bereth witnesse:
19.449: Non occides : mihi vindictam &c.
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