William Langland
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"William Langland" is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.

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Necessity has no law.

There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

Who will bell the cat?

When all treasures are tried . . . truth is the fairest.