medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thank you, John. That probably is the passage.
DW
John McChesney-Young wrote:
> 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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