medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 2:28 PM -0800 1/12/08, Diana Wright wrote:
>Can someone who is familiar with the text help me? An economist
>makes reference to a comparison of plague to the steady drizzle of
>rain through a leaking roof, in /Piers Plowman/. I'd like to find
>this.>>
Perhaps the second "thynge" in this passage in Passus 17:318-323,
with rain on the bed explained as sickness and sorrows in l. 337?
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=PPlLan;rgn=div1;view=text;cc=cme;node=PPlLan%3A18
or
http://tinyurl.com/ywwksz
"Thre thynges ther ben that doon a man by strengthe
17.318
For to fleen his owene hous, as Holy Writ sheweth.
17.319
That oon is a wikkede wif that wol noght be chastised:
17.320
Hir feere fleeth hire for feere of hir tonge.
17.321
And if his hous be unhiled, and reyne on his bedde,
17.322
He seketh and seketh til he slepe drye.
17.323
...
"The reyn that reyneth ther we reste sholde
17.336
Ben siknesses and sorwes that we suffren oughte,
17.337
As Poul the Apostle to the peple taughte:
17.338
Virtus in infirmitate perficitur.
Translation at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=h8bBjsEC_8AC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=&source=web&ots=3SbVKaWlQp&sig=3PwfySSkOh64O3sGhWvEC38uFDE#PPA215,M1
or
http://tinyurl.com/ytm726 (bottom of p. 215 f.)
John
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