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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4. Traugott Lawler
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See 6.1–2 (B.5.60–61, A.5.43–44)n.
17 (B.14.164) sende hem somur: For a different use of the idea of heaven as summertime, see 1.112–25.
19–21 For al myhtest þou … som pore and ryche (B.14.166–67 For alle myʒtestow … if þee wel hadde liked): The idea (which also occurs at B.11.197–98) that God might have made all equally rich, but it is better that he didn’t, is something of a commonplace, and L’s lines here are virtually a translation. See, e.g., PL 39.2330 (a sermon attributed to Augustine): “Potuit enim omnes homines divites facere; sed nobis per pauperum miseriam voluit subvenire ut et pauper per patientiam et dives per eleemosynam possint Dei gratiam promoveri” (God could have made everybody rich, but he wanted to help us by means of the plight of the poor, since the poor man could be advanced in the grace of God through patience, and the rich man through almsgiving). The PL has plenty more examples. Job 34:19 and Prov 29:13 both say that God made both rich and poor. “Alike witty and wise” is apparently Langland’s extension of the basic idea, and a sly one, since it may imply that as the poor lack money, the rich lack brains—an idea voiced more boldly at 16.49–50 (B.14.208–9) below.
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