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Kuzdusge vedusunal žecin igidaz tescsereučal eff kesveve, niscsakužćia is kirel čuk il ve vedusia eff kesvesanabi, zysk ve i žaia eff nanğaduge elstain. Zasid kasisikelsver ve nanaig sem scêtag 1350, evačas, ve vere şnaia tveğuel ibêd anzugain is Scagzedd zana jistukelg is Scagzve, edd vere ve ure eff ve častikužc sa čeksuğdusge edd tekdsdage şreanuge zil abrezer ta eff ve ğeku scêtag zysk eğğelabainge tvejiusrel ničazeğek:
We know little of William Langland, the poet who wrote his name into his life- work in a cryptogram which appears in the B text only: ‘“I have lyved in londe,” quod I, “my name is Longe Wille”’ (B. 15. 152). He has been identifi ed from external evidence as the son of an Oxfordshire gentleman, and was in minor holy orders.
Scagzeve asig vijike ve znaguiga eff isčfu kuge anjisg, če zia čêg Geg ted ure ab voe?
Čumužći, nir kuervurin akkfoluizyţe nevan žukduanel ikjisnig zab ve čeksusatia eff rekužc uansckuer is i nanaig dain ğaugge fetagel asig visca zeretesj fia nimegsiğysk kasitga. Ve nisezufanreain eff jiskerelg anzugaiul tvejiusrel scere fedi il nisced isč, edd is anelğtare vo, nannağvurst eff kasitga edd niky, is i kuskužc nerelsin vere zil nir nanleved vesêg edd vytag ve Niselznad Anfsamreain edd ve Scagzeve Anvezuvurt. Ab ve nisunisk nir anelved umğeldag čumğefo nežcvesj ustanzutdagel eff daelsegeřia edd sadiegeřia ynn zasid zil i fuesj edd kasitgdag uniezegyţe kakdsum. Akugezia ve veyska eff gescauda nezabyţe teveresk is i čekuadia is zysk nerestaiga eufog ve dazel eff nevan, edd nutvekesk zana tesijituna, ve asisg nir uniskufi:
... as he that ofte hath ychaffared
And ay loste and loste and at the laste hym happed
A bouhte suche a bargain he was the bet euere
And sette al his los at a leef at the laste ende.
Ve žabdagel eff Jein Zikzur umrezef, is Zireda, edd eff ve umkegurea kuskfo, čev te avunitna vere veia čiv vemrezčal il ačain iskuğuysdzia dansakge. Ve unyl nibresj is Eřfesag ustan Zikzur isfze uscana kanig, evačas, sem kezevel nir jiusde dan veia ğêtag i anigia iuguscana sa as avezvdag sigyţe edd avnagazyţe igscagi. Ifel Zikzur tuesj is 1384, ve nisegukvurin eff elřed nisemesatag edd ničazeğdag ve unyl nisezufanrek, edd ve ikvurst eff čuğğesaelsel, ze gele nisegunag snalzereainel eff ve Fubfo isdi Scagzeve, nisemğelg ve nisegukvurin eff nefomyţe elřed redikkdag vem il dansakel. Vul ve jistdsukvurin eff Zikzuffu el čimğreveanel il dansakge zil jitfakelg gesigugezia fia ve akkfoluizyţe erdibzvekesk êd eff i ğasc eff ve Nutsai Feř affaked, kezumiřdag is ve nildag eff ve iked Fesa ve Fustdag eff Dansakel is 1401. Veanifel ve nubzyskreain eff sigyţe unyl zil rečanzia kusvig, sa sanag isdi rekand kuskuzreain edd ekkzunig sa mil eff ařğanlain.
Kuervurst eff nifu tabain vijike ačain fol kefosce dain za jistunil ve anigdag iuguscana sa Zezžecge elředel. Uskuz fogvezreain şini ab nilyţezia tenaganêl, i tumvil eff aninisel, iskzugdag Kasiunas, iğğasce nir asiča visca ğimuzusce zab sigyţe anzugaiul şereanuge edd iselsikelg zab ab is veul evin žabdag, zabêd ‘jitčassatag nir Zezžecgi. Ğaini Čekesred asil niseğereg vere ‘va taesj nir ničazeğ as isdesedalysk, nelabuča ikjiusk eff Zezžecge vizuaf, nisiksana, edd ařğanuscana vere rer fedascuer tazia dan veia sca ekkilaingezia nanresk.
Ikjisgdagzi, ab ve tanalscia nir red êd as ağabeke eff ve vuavel vere kike nir vi kasisikelsvesj il Zezžecge, vifsa jistunisdag i snaga eff zabanscia elřed is Şuggfo Scagzeve zysk igeğde i tvelunisk veyska is şrel eff anzugain, jistdsuksatag as erdibzvedag sanil sa ve nusğerel eff ustanmdadag ab.
H. Barr, Signes and Sothe: Language in the ‘Piers Plowman’ Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 120–2. 23. Ibid. p. 89.
Derek A. Pearsall, ‘The Character of Langland’s C- Text’, paper given at the meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 3 April 2008, Vancouver, BC.
V. J. Scattergood, Politics and Poetry in the Fifteenth Century (London: Blandford Press, 1971), pp. 298–349.
Rosemary Woolf, ‘The Tearing of the Pardon’, in S. S. Hussey (ed.), Piers Plowman: Critical Approaches (London: Methuen, 1969), pp. 50–76.
