JOHN GOWER, JOHN BARLEYCORN, AND WILLIAM LANGLAND.

Describes the way John Gower treats drunkenness, a branch of the deadly sin of gluttony, in the poem 'Confessio Amantis.' Difference from William Langland's approach to drunkenness in his account of the antics of Glotoun in 'Piers Plowman'; Possible reason for the insertion of French words by Gower.