Piers Plowman A GUIDE TO THE QUOTATIONS medieval & Renaissance texts & studies VOLUME 77 Piers Plowman A GUIDE TO THE QUOTATIONS John A. Alford medieval & Renaissance texts & studies Binghamton, New York 1992 © Copyright 1992 Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies State University of New ork at Binghamton Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alford, John A., 1938- Piers Plowman : a guide to the quotations / John A. Alford. cm. - (Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies : v. 77.) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-86698-088-1 1. Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers the Plowman. 2. Langland, illiam, 1330?-1400?-Knowledge and learning . 3. Quotations in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PR2017.Q67A44 1992 821'.1-dc2O 91-31220 CIP This book is made to last. It is set in Antiqua, smythe-sewn and printed on acid-free paper to library specifications Printed in the United States of America Contents Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction I Editorial Treatment of the Quotations 3 Line Numbers 3 The Use of Italics 9 The Text 14 The Question of Sources 16 The Scriptural Quotations 17 The Non-Scriptural Quotations 24 The Indexes 1. The Latin and French Quotations 31 2. The Biblical Quotations 119 3. Alphabetical Index 137 Acknowledgments I OULD LIKE TO THANK the following persons for their help in this guide: Stephen A. Barney, Andrew Galloway, Ralph Hanna III, Traugott Lawler, and M. Teresa Tavormina, for their suggestions ; Kathleen Blumreich Moore and Margaret esseling, for checking the accuracy of the citations ; Joseph S. ittig, for providing a com- puter printout of the Athlone edition of the C version; and above all, George Russell and George Kane, for giving me permission to cite it before publication. Abbreviations Alford 1972 John A. Alford, "Piers Plowman B.xviii.390: 'Til Parce It Hote.' " MP 69 (1972): 323-25. Alford 1975 , "Some Unidentified Quotations in Piers Plowman." MP72 (1975): 390-99. Alford 1977 , "The Role of the Quotations in Piers Plow- man." Speculum 52 (1977): 80-99. Alford 1984 , "More Unidentified Quotations in Piers Plowman." MP81 (1984): 146-49. Alford 1988a , ed., A Companion to Piers Plowman. Berke- ley: Univ. of California Press, 1988. Alford 1988b , Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988. Auctores Octo Auctores Octo cum Commento. London: Jacobus Myt, 1514. A Authorized ersion Bennett J. A. . Bennett, ed., Piers Plowman: The Prologue and Passus I- II of the B text as found in Bodleian MS. Laud 581. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Brev. Breviarium ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiae Sarum, ed. Francis Procter and Christopher ordsworth. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1879. Brinton The Sermons of Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester (1373-1389), ed. M. A. Devlin. 2 vols. Camden Society, 3d ser., vols 85 and 86. London: Royal Historical Society, 1954. Bromyard John Bromyard, Summa Praedicantium. 2 vols. enice, 1586. Cited by volume, folio, and col- umn (e.g., 1:201/2). X Cato Disticha Catonis. Recensuit et Apparatu Critico In- struxit, ed. Marcus Boas and Henricus Johannes Botschuyer. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1952 (cited by book and number);'also Dicta Catonis (Disticha Catonis), ed. J. right Duff and Arnold M. Duff,Minor Latin Poets, 585-633. Loeb Classi- cal Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1934. CIC Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. Aemilius Friedberg. 2 vols. Graz: Akademische Druck u. erlagsanstalt, 1955. CT Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987. EETS Early English Text Society. Oxford and London. Cited by title and volume. ELH English Literary History es extra series (Early English Text Society) Foedera Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et cuiuscunque Gene- ric Acta Publica, inter Reges Angliae, ed. Thomas Rymer. 2d ed. London: Tonson, 1728. FM Fasciculus Morum: A Fourteenth-Century Preacher's Handbook, ed. and trans. Siegfried enzel. Uni- versity Park: The Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1989. Graces Latin Graces. Ed. F. J. Furnivall in The Babees Book, 382-96. EETS 32 (1868). Glunz Hans Glunz, History of the ulgate in England. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1933. Gratian Decretum Magistri Gratianior Concordia Discordan- tium Canonum. ol. 1 of Corpus Iuris Canonici (CIC). Gray Nick Gray, "Langland's Quotations from the Penitential Tradition." MP 84 (1986): 53-60. Horstman Carl Horstman, ed., orkshire riters: Richard Rolle of Hampole . . . and His Followers. 2 vols. London: Sonnenschein, 1895. Hort Greta Hort, Piers Plowman and Contemporary Religious Thought. New ork: Macmillan, 1938. Hugh Hugh of St. Cher, Postillae in Universa Biblia. 7 vols. Lyons, 1667. JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology