Piers Plowman
A man in a rough wool shirt falls asleep in the Malvern hills and sees a field full of folk strung between a tower and a dungeon, with Lady Meed brought to trial at Westminster and the seven deadly sins making their confessions in turn. A ploughman who says he knows the road undertakes to guide the pilgrims to Truth, and the dreamer wakes and sleeps again through a long search for Dowel, Dobet and Dobest. The great alliterative poem of Chaucer's London, quoted in the letters of the 1381 rebels and revised by its author across three versions for most of his life.
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