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THE VISION CONCERNING PIERS PLOWMAN (fragment)

Bakers and brewers and butchers a-many,
Woollen-websters and weavers of linen,
Tailors and tinkers toll-takers in markets,
Masons and miners and men of all crafts.

Of all kinds of labourers there stood forth some;
Ditchers and diggers that do their work ill
And spend all the day singing `Dieu vous sauve, dame Emme!'

Cooks and their knaves cried 'Pies, hot pies!

Good pork and good goose! Come, dine! Come, dine!'
Taverners unto them told the same tale:
`White wine of Alsace red wine of Gascony,
Wine of the Rhine, of Rochelle to help settle your meat!'
All this I saw sleeping and seven times more.

Poeta inglés del siglo XIV, último de los grandes poetas 14th century English poet, last of the great medieval
medievales. Se cree que nació hacia el año 1332 en poets. It seems that William Langland was born in
Ledbury, Herefordshire. Ledbury, Herefordshire, towards 1332.
Tomó las órdenes menores, se casó tempranamente y He took minor orders, married at an early age and
tuvo una hija. had a daughter.
Vivió modestamente en Cornhill, Londres, ganándose la Langland lived quite modestly in london, earning his
vida con la copia de documentos y cantando en los living copying documents and singing masses.
oficios de difuntos. His death took place in 1400.
Su muerte tuvo lugar en el año 1400. He is the author of Piers Plowman, allegorical and satiric
Autor de Pedro el Labrador, poema alegórico-satírico poem in unrhymed verse, in which he tells us about the
de versos sin rima, a través del que nos habla de la church, the Holy Scriptures, the soul, the love for the
Iglesia, las Sagradas Escrituras, del alma, del amor Lord and the search for salvation and God's grace. The
al Señor, buscando la salvación y la gracia de Dios. poem tells us about three visions which occur when the
El poema narra tres visiones que ocurren cuando el poet falls asleep in the Malvern Hills and dreams that he
30 poeta se duerme en las Colinas Malvern y sueña que finds the Tower of Truth, God. Later, upon a hill, he finds
encuentra la Torre de la Verdad, Dios. Después, sobre
the Fortress (dungeon), the Devil, "a field full of people",
una colina, la Mazmorra de lo Incorrecto,el Diablo y en the world of the living…
un valle profundo, " y un campo lleno de gente ",
el mundo de los hombres vivos…