I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it synget… - William Langland

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I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth, But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

William Langland

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William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386) was an English poet, known only for having written Piers Plowman, an allegorical poem written in unrhymed alliterative verse which deals with moral and social themes. The dialect of Langland's poem shows him to have been a Midland man.

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Alternative Names: William Langley • William Langland o de Langley

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For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule, It is in cloistre or in scole.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene – Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche, Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth, But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre. - William Langland

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