Note 464 — BOOK 1. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Even in the time of Langland, pilgrimages to Walsingham were not unfavourable to the rites of Venus. Thus in his Visions of Pierce Plowman, fo. 1.
"Hermets on a heape, with hoked staves, Wenten to Walsingham, and her[465] wenches after."