[11] We may enumerate the following as specimens of such works published in the sixteenth century. Several similar publications appeared in the century following. "Pyers Plowmans Exortation vnto the lordes, knights, and burgoysses of the parlyament house." 8vo. printed by Anthony Scholoker, in the reign of Edward VI. "Newes from the North, Otherwise called the Conference between Simon Certain, and Pierce Plowman, faithfully collected and gathered by T. F. Student." 4to. London, John Allde, 1579. "The Plowmans complaint of sundry wicked livers, and especially of the bad bringing vp of children; written in verse by R. B. printed for Hugh Corne, 1580." 8vo. "A goodlye Dialogue and dysputacion between Pyers Ploweman and a Popish Preest, c[=o]cernynge the Supper of the Lorde." 8vo, without date. [12] Printed in the _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, vol i. pp. 170-188. On the date of this poem, see the _Biographia Britannica Literaria_ (by the editor of the present work), Anglo-Saxon period, pp. 395, 396. [13] Printed in the _Altdeutsche Blätter_ von Moriz Haupt und Heinrich Hoffmann, vol. ii. pp. 99-120, and in the _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, vol. i. pp. 208-227. [14] Discovered in a MS. at Worcester by Sir Thomas Phillipps, who published a small edition of it, in folio. [15] Edited by Sir Frederick Madden, for the Society of Antiquaries. [16] Many instances of this will be found in my _Specimens of Lyric Poetry_, composed in England in the reign of Edward the First (Percy Society Publication). [17] Such as _William and the Werwolf_, edited by Sir Frederick Madden; the _Romance of Jerusalem_; that of _Alexander_; &c. [18] MS. Harl. 2253. In this manuscript, and in several others which I have seen the rhyming poems in short lines, whether in English, Latin, or French, are arranged in this manner; and I have met with instances in which part of a poem has been arranged in this way, and other parts of the same poem have been arranged in short lines, to suit the scribe's convenience. I have a strong impression of having met with an early English manuscript in which a fragment of alliterative verse was written in short couplets. [19] _Text I._ is from the edition now offered to the public: _Text II._ from that edited by Dr. Whitaker. [20] The title of the second impression is, "The Vision of Pierce Ploughman, nowe the seconde time imprinted by Roberte Crowley, dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne. Whereunto are added certayne notes and cotations in the mergyne gevynge light to the Reader, &c. Imprinted at London by Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Elye rentes in Holburne. The yere of our Lord M.D.L. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum." 4to, 125 leaves.