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Article: Langland's 'corlew': another look at 'Piers Plowman' B xiv.43.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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After Conscience, at the beginning of Passus XIV, explains to Hawkyn how he can 'clawe' his 'cote of alle kynnes filpe'(1) through contrition, Patience proceeds to tell Hawkyn how he will give him that food which is best for human souls. Patience says he will 'purueie' to the incredulous Active Man a filling 'paast' not produced by the labor of any plough. He continues: 'Ne solliciti sitis, &c; Volucres celi Deus pascit &c' (33a). Hawkyn objects and says that anyone who believes he need not worry about acquiring food is something of a fool. Patience, in turn, responds that God never gave life to any creature without at the same time giving that creature a way to procure ...