One character in this poem tells its main character "When all treasure is tried, truth is the best."
One character in this poem tells its main character "When all treasure is tried, truth is the best." This poem's first section ends with its main character showing a pardon to a priest who declares it invalid, causing him to angrily rip it apart. In another of its scenes, Betty the Breweress lures a glutton into a tavern where he drinks so much that he pisses two quarts and vomits. This poem is divided into sections entitled "passus," and follows a character who is warned by Lady Holy Church against the evil Lady Meed. Its prologue begins "In summer season when soft was the sun," and describes how its narrator falls asleep at the Malvern Hills and dreams of a "fair field full of folk." In its second half, its narrator searches for the characters Do-Well, Do-Better, and Do-Best. For 10 points, name this fourteenth century allegorical poem attributed to William Langland.
One character in this poem tells its main character "When all treasure is tried, truth is the best."
William's Vision of Piers Plowman