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THE VISION AND CREED
OF
PIERS PLOUGHMAN.
EDITED,
FROM A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT,
WITH A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION,
NOTES, AND A GLOSSARY,
BY THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. F.S.A. &c.
Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France,
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
SECOND AND REVISED EDITION.
LONDON:
REEVES AND TURNER, 196 STRAND.
1887.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
T is now thirteen years since the first edition of the following text of this important poem was published by the late Mr. Pickering, during which time the study of our ol
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