During a feast in this poem, an obese doctor of divinity gorges himself on both food and scripture. In this poem, Patience teaches the virtues of poverty to Haukyn the Active Man. Divided into sections knowns as “passus,” this poem’s narrator falls asleep in the Malvern Hills and awakes to see a valley teeming with “a fair field of folk.” Its author published this poem in a revised B-version, likely to distance himself from Wat Tyler. Its second section concerns the narrator’s quest to find Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best. For 10 points, name this allegorical poem by William Langland.
During a feast in this poem, an obese doctor of divinity gorges himself on both food and scripture. In this poem, Patience teaches the virtues of poverty to Haukyn the Active Man. Divided into sections knowns as “passus,” this poem’s narrator falls asleep in the Malvern Hills and awakes to see a valley teeming with “a fair field of folk.” Its author published this poem in a revised B-version, likely to distance himself from Wat Tyler. Its second section concerns the narrator’s quest to find Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best. For 10 points, name this allegorical poem by William Langland.
During a feast in this poem, an obese doctor of divinity gorges himself on both food and scripture.