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English: Frontispiece to The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. The illustration originally appeared in a 14th-century copy of Langland's poem, preserved in the James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in Trinity College, Cambridge. The caption reads "God spede þe plouȝ & sende us korne i-now" (God speed the plough and send us corn enough).
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Source 'The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Second & Revised Edition.', available freely at Project Gutenberg
Author Thomas Wright (editor.) Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
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