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Charity, quoth I |
Where may that be found? |
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I have lived in London |
many long years, |
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I have lived in land, |
my name is Long Will, |
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Yet never found I Charity |
before or behind, |
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Never saw I a man, |
so God help me, |
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But would ask for his own |
and other times covet |
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Things he needed not |
and take them if he could. |
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Clerks tell me that Christ |
is in all places, |
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But never saw I Him truly |
Save in a mirror |
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William Langland PIERS PLOWMAN edited by Arthur Burrell
CHAPTER 45 CHARITY IN STAINES
Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St Simon said, “Oh God! Is that bastard hooting again?”
“It’s 2 AM.” Mumbled Lady Clara St Simon “Can’t we write him a letter?”
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