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Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 183

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brated poem of Piers Ploughman, preserved in the Library ofTrinity College, Cambridge, and written about the end of the reign of EdwardIII. or at the beginning of that of Richard II. It gives us a very good ideaof the mode of ploughing with oxen, as well as of the kind of instrument thenused, and… … s$tW ye flotfef smile m hptt-}w% In the poem entitled The Creed of Piers Ploughman, written about the reignof Richard II., we have the following description, which may serve to illustratethis cut: His cote was of a cloute That cary was y-called; His hod was ful of holes, And his heare out; With his…

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