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Excerpt from The Vision of Piers the Plowman
Christian the pilgrim. The reader will avoid this error if he understands that Piers the Plowman is only one of the rather numerous subjects described in the writer's Vision; that the said Piers is the personification of a thoroughly honest head-labourer on a farm and further, that the author does not hesitate, at times, to identify his hero with the highest type of humanity, as seen in the divine Person of Christ. Whenever, in quoting from the poem, we use the common expression, as Piers Plow man says, we really run the possible risk of including Christ amongst the Middle English authors of the four teenth century. The expression, that such and such a statement occurs in Piers Plowman is, however, de fensible, especially if rightly understood; we might say the same of Sir Thopas.
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