PIERS PLOUGHMAN
\pˈi͡əz plˈa͡ʊmən], \pˈiəz plˈaʊmən], \p_ˈiə_z p_l_ˈaʊ_m_ə_n]\
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Two poems, the one called the Vision, the other the Creed, of Piers the Ploughman, are supposed to have been written by Robert Langland, in the fourteenth century. They are in the old English alliterative verse, and speak very plainly of the ecclesiastical abuses of the time.-Milman, Hist, of Latin Christianity, bk. xiv. ch. 7.
By Henry Percy Smith
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