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An essay is presented on passus XIX and XX of the B-text of the Middle English poem "Piers Plowman," by William Langland. It provides textual criticism suggesting that the passus in question were derived from passus in the C-text of the poem. It also discusses late medieval writing processes and the role of scribes in creating literature through the copies they created.

The article presents information on the book "Piers Plowman." This note focuses on writer John But's claims about the literary works of the poet of "Piers Plowman," which have proven to be particularly seductive. John But's brief remarks have had an impact upon one's understanding of the authorship and reception of "Piers Plowman" greater than anything else within the poem except perhaps the famous so-called "Apologia Pro Vita Sua." This note looks anew at But's words on their own terms, quite apart from the preconceptions that seem to have governed critical responses to them.

Describes the poem `Nun's Priest's Tale,' by poet Geoffrey Chaucer, with emphasis on the poem's presentation and enactment of tyrannical enclosure. Reference to Chaucer's mention of the biblical episode of Nimrod and Bable in the poem `The Former Age; Views on the closing words of the `Nun's Priest's Tale.'