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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538525" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pilgrimage In Search Of Do-Well</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus y-robed in russet . romed I aboute<br>Al in a somer seson . for to seke Do-wel;<br>And frayned full ofte . of folk that I mette<br>If any wight wiste . wher Do-wel was at inne;<br>And what man he myghte be . of many man I asked.<br>Was nevere wight, as I wente . that me wisse kouthe<br>Where this leode lenged, . lasse ne moore.<br>Til it bifel on a Friday . two freres I mette<br>Maisters of the Menours . men of grete witte.<br>I hailsed them hendely, . as I hadde y-lerned.<br>And preede them par charite, . er thei passed ferther,<br>If thei knew any contree . or costes as thei wente,<br>'Where that Do-wel dwelleth . dooth me to witene'.<br>For thei be men of this moolde . that moost wide walken,<br>And knowen contrees and courtes, . and many kynnes places,<br>Bothe princes paleises . and povere mennes cotes,<br>And Do-wel and Do-yvele . where thei dwelle bothe.<br>'Amonges us' quod the Menours, . 'that man is dwellynge,<br>And evere hath as I hope, . and evere shal herafter.'<br>'_Contra_', quod I as a clerc, . and comsed to disputen,<br>And seide hem soothly, . '_Septies in die cadit justus_'.<br>'Sevene sithes, seeth the book . synneth the rightfulle;<br>And who so synneth,' I seide, . 'dooth yvele, as me thynketh;<br>And Do-wel and Do-yvele . mowe noght dwelle togideres.<br>Ergo he nis noght alway . among you freres:<br>He is outher while ellis where . to wisse the peple.'<br>'I shal seye thee, my sone' . seide the frere thanne,<br>'How seven sithes the sadde man, . on a day synneth;<br>By a forbisne' quod the frere, . 'I shal thee faire showe.<br>Lat brynge a man in a boot, . amydde the brode watre;<br>The wynd and the water . and the boot waggyng,<br>Maketh the man many a tyme . to falle and to stonde;<br>For stonde he never so stif, . he stumbleth if he meve,<br>Ac yet is he saaf and sound, . and so hym bihoveth;<br>For if he ne arise the rather, . and raughte to the steere,<br>The wynd wolde with the water . the boot over throwe;<br>And thanne were his lif lost, . thorough lackesse of hymselve.<br>And thus it falleth,' quod the frere, . 'by folk here on erthe;<br>The water is likned to the world . that wanyeth and wexeth;<br>The goodes of this grounde arn like . to the grete wawes,<br>That as wyndes and wedres . walketh aboute;<br>The boot is likned to oure body . that brotel is of kynde,<br>That thorough the fend and the flesshe . and the frele worlde<br>Synneth the sadde man . a day seven sithes.<br>Ac dedly synne doth he noght, . for Do-wel hym kepeth;<br>And that is Charite the champion, . chief help ayein Synne;<br>For he strengtheth men to stonde, . and steereth mannes soule,<br>And though the body bowe . as boot dooth in the watre,<br>Ay is thi soul saaf, . but if thou wole thiselve<br>Do a deedly synne, . and drenche so thi soule,<br>God wole suffre wel thi sleuthe . if thiself liketh.<br>For he yaf thee a yeres-gyve, . to yeme wel thiselve,<br>And that is wit and free-wil, . to every wight a porcion,<br>To fleynge foweles, . to fisshes and to beastes:<br>Ac man hath moost thereof, . and moost is to blame,<br>But if he werch wel therwith, . as Do-wel hym techeth.'<br>'I have no kynde knowyng,' quod I, . 'to conceyven alle your wordes:<br>Ac if I may lyve and loke, . I shall go lerne bettre.'<br>'I bikenne thee Christ,' quod he, . 'that on cros deyde!'<br>And I seide 'the same . save you fro myschaunce,<br>And gyve you grace on this grounde . goode men to worthe!'<br>And thus I wente wide wher . walkyng myn one,<br>By a wilderness, . and by a wodes side:<br>Blisse of the briddes. . Broughte me a-slepe,<br>And under a lynde upon a launde . lened I a stounde,<br>To lythe the layes . the lovely foweles made,<br>Murthe of hire mowthes . made me ther to slepe;<br>The merveillouseste metels . mette me thanne<br>That ever dremed wight . in worlde, as I wene.<br>A muche man, as me thoughte . and like to myselve,<br>Cam and called me . by my kynde name.<br>'What artow,' quod I tho, . 'that thow my name knowest.'<br>'That woost wel,' quod he, . 'and no wight bettre.'<br>'Woot I what thou art?' . 'Thought,' seide he thanne;<br>'I have sued thee this seven yeer, . seye thou me no rather.'<br>'Artow Thought,' quod I thoo, . 'thow koudest me wisse,<br>Where that Do-wel dwelleth, . and do me that to knowe.'<br>'Do-wel and Do-bet, . and Do-best the thridde,' quod he,<br>'Arn thre fair vertues, . and ben noght fer to fynde.<br>Who so is trewe of his tunge, . and of his two handes,<br>And thorugh his labour or thorugh his land, . his liflode wynneth,<br>And is trusty of his tailende, . taketh but his owene,<br>And is noght dronklewe ne dedeynous, . Do-wel hym folweth.<br>Do-bet dooth ryght thus; . ac he dooth much more;<br>He is as lowe as a lomb, . and lovelich of speche,<br>And helpeth alle men . after that hem nedeth.<br>The bagges and the bigirdles, . he hath to-broke hem alle<br>That the Erl Avarous . heeld and hise heires.<br>And thus with Mammonaes moneie . he hath maad hym frendes,<br>And is ronne to religion, . and hath rendred the Bible,<br>And precheth to the peple . Seint Poules wordes:<br>_Libenter suffertis insipientes, cum sitis ipsi sapientes_:<br>'And suffreth the unwise' . with you for to libbe<br>And with glad will dooth hem good . and so God you hoteth.<br>Do-best is above bothe, . and bereth a bisshopes crosse,<br>Is hoked on that oon ende . to halie men fro helle;<br>A pik is on that potente, . to putte a-down the wikked<br>That waiten any wikkednesse . Do-wel to tene.<br>And Do-wel and Do-bet . amonges hem han ordeyned,<br>To crowne oon to be kyng . to rulen hem bothe;<br>That if Do-wel or Do-bet . dide ayein Do-best,<br>Thanne shal the kyng come . and casten hem in irens,<br>And but if Do-best bede for hem, . thei to be there for evere.<br>Thus Do-wel and Do-bet, . and Do-best the thridde,<br>Crouned oon to the kyng . to kepen hem alle,<br>And to rule the reme . by hire thre wittes,<br>And noon oother wise, . but as thei thre assented.'<br>I thonked Thoght tho, . that he me thus taughte.<br>'Ac yet savoreth me noght thi seying. . I coveit to lerne<br>How Do-wel, Do-bet, and Do-best . doon among the peple.'<br>'But Wit konne wisse thee,' quod Thoght, . 'Where tho thre dwelle,<br>Ellis woot I noon that kan . that now is alyve.'<br>Thoght and I thus . thre daies we yeden,<br>Disputyng upon Do-wel . day after oother;<br>And er we were war, . with Wit gonne we mete.<br>He was long and lene, . lik to noon other;<br>Was no pride on his apparaille . ne poverte neither;<br>Sad of his semblaunt, . and of softe chere,<br>I dorste meve no matere . to maken hym to jangle,<br>But as I bad Thoght thoo . be mene bitwene,<br>And pute forth som purpos . to preven his wittes,<br>What was Do-wel fro Do-bet, . and Do-best from hem bothe.<br>Thanne Thoght in that tyme . seide these wordes:<br>'Where Do-wel, Do-bet, . and Do-best ben in londe,<br>Here is Wil wolde wite, . if Wit koude teche him;<br>And whether he be man or woman . this man fayn wolde aspie,<br>And werchen as thei thre wolde, . thus is his entente'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Langland">William Langland</a><div class=q>
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Al in a somer seson . for to seke Do-wel;
And frayned full ofte . of folk that I mette
If any wight wiste . wher Do-wel was at inne;
And what man he myghte be . of many man I asked.
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