Charity, quoth I

Where may that be found?

I have lived in London

many long years,

I have lived in land,

my name is Long Will,

Yet never found I Charity

before or behind,

Never saw I a man,

so God help me,

But would ask for his own

and other times covet

Things he needed not

and take them if he could.

Clerks tell me that Christ

is in all places,

But never saw I Him truly

Save in a mirror



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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