It may have been that many an honest plowman, marching through the muddy quagmires of Pennsylvania Avenue, bethought himself that such a capital was hardly worth while marching so far to protectmore emphatically so when the enemy was really to be found on lines far north of it!

"The plowman homeward his weary way."

To the meditative, romantic mind, the farmer and plowman, standing thus in the foreground of the infinite perspective of time, take on a sacred significance, as of traditional ministers of the ancient mysteries of the earth.

so [WILLIAM LANGLAND, the author of] PIERS PLOWMAN was the first that observed the true quantity of our verse without the curiosity of rhyme.

Beowulf and Roland are ideal heroes, essentially creatures of the imagination; but the merry host of the Tabard Inn, Madame Eglantyne, the fat monk, the parish priest, the kindly plowman, the poor scholar with his "bookës black and red,"all seem more like personal acquaintances than characters in a book.

Piers Plowman, in King's Classics.

Jusserand's Piers Plowman; Skeat's Piers Plowman (text, glossary and notes); Warren's Piers Plowman in Modern Prose.

Jusserand's Piers Plowman; Skeat's Piers Plowman (text, glossary and notes); Warren's Piers Plowman in Modern Prose.

Piers Plowman in England | | 1381.

Hammond's own plowmen were now nearly as numerous as his full hoe hands, and his crops were on a scale of twenty acres of cotton, ten of corn and two of oats to the plow.

The $700 class comprised six plowmen, five field hands, the three remaining ox drivers, both wagoners, both blacksmiths, the carriage driver, four stone masons, a carpenter, and Ned the twenty-eight year old invalid whose illness cannot have been chronic.

The increase of the laborers and the spread of the fields, he said, often required the working of three squads, the plowmen, the grown hoe hands, and the younger hoe hands.

Then at the summons of the plow driver, at first break of day, the plowmen went to the stables whose doors the overseer opened.

At half past eleven the plowmen carried their mules to a shelter house in the fields, and at noon the hoe hands laid off for dinner, to resume work at one o'clock, except that in hot weather the intermission was extended to a maximum of three and a half hours.

The plowmen led the way home by a quarter of an hour in the evening, and the hoe hands followed at sunset.

SEE Garis, Howard R. PLOWMAN, MAX.

Max Plowman (A); 21Feb55; R144821. PLUCKNETT, THEODORE F. T., joint author.

Plowman's folly.

Plowman's folly.

FAULKNER, JOHN E. Plowman's folly.

MCKELVEY, JOSEPHINE F. Plowman's folly.

The date of his admission at Oxford was 1534; he was elected Fellow of Magdalene in 1542; he printed the first edition of Piers Plowman in 1550; and was still Parson of St. Giles's, near Cripplegate, in 1588, i.e. fifty-five years after the publication of the Tract we are considering.

The following lines from the fifth eclogue may serve to illustrate Barclay's style: I shall not deny our payne and servitude, I knowe that plowmen for the most part be rude, Nowe shall I tell thee high matters true and olde, Which curteous Candidus unto me once tolde, Nought shall I forge nor of no leasing bable, This is true history and no surmised fable.

The children of those convicted and punished were sent into exile; their goods were confiscated; plowman and vintner failed."

The plowmen left their fields and carried the bier, with sobs and lamentations, to the church in Ringsted, where the great King rests.