Note 930 — XXIII. THE HERESIES.
Reading edition
Concil. Mogunt. ann. 1261 can. xlviii. (Hartzheim III. 612, 615).
The decline of the order from the asceticism of its founder afforded a fair mark for satire—
Seyn that they folwen Fully Fraunceyses rewle, That in cotinge of his cope Is more cloth y-folden Than was in Fraunceis froc When he hem first made. And yet under that cope A cote hathe he furred With foyns or with fichewes Other fyn bevere, And that is cutted to the kne, And queyntly y-botened, Lest any spiritual man Aspie that gyle. Fraunceys bad his brethern Bar-fot to wenden; Now han they buckled shone, For blenyng of her heles, And hosen in hard weder Y-hamled by the ancle, And spicerie sprad in her purs To parten where hem luste. Creed of Piers Ploughman l. 579-600.