Walter William Skeat
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Walter William Skeat was a British philologist and Anglican deacon. The pre-eminent British philologist of his time, he was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subjec
Skeat at his writing desk, no later than 1895
Pierce the Ploughman's Crede
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Pierce the Ploughman's Crede is a medieval alliterative poem of 855 lines, lampooning the four orders of friars.
Walter William Skeat
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The frontispiece of Reyner Wolfe's edition of Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, printed in 1553