A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 438 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 5)

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Now hath uche riche a reule · to eten by hym-selve In a pryve parloure · for pore mennes sake, Or in a chambre with a chymneye · and leve the chief halle, That was made for meles · men te eten inne.

"Visions Concerning Piers Plowman" (ed. Skeat), text B, passus x. line 96.

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