Note 162 — Chapter II · MIMUS AND SCÔP
Reading edition
Piers the Plowman, C. text, viii. 97:
‘Clerkus and knyȝtes · welcometh kynges mynstrales, And for loue of here lordes · lithen hem at festes; Muche more, me thenketh · riche men auhte Haue beggars by-fore hem · whiche beth godes mynstrales.’