God Spede the Plough
"God Spede the Plough" is the name of an early 16th-century manuscript poem which borrows twelve stanzas from Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk's Tale.
It is a short, satirical complaint, listing the various indolent members of the clergy who will demand a share of the ploughman's harvest, rendering his work futile.
The work contains a possible allusion to 1 Corinthians 9:10: "...when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing the harvest." This verse is used by St Paul in an argument that the Apostles' ("we [who] have sown spiritual seed among you"[1]) food and other basic needs should be supplied by the laity of the early Christian church. The poem also deprecates taxation and issues the same sort of complaint as that found in the Second Shepherds' Play.
See also
- Piers Plowman Tradition
References
- ^ 1 Corinthians 9:11
External links
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Canterbury Tales
- General Prologue
- The Knight's Tale
- The Miller's Tale
- The Reeve's Tale
- The Cook's Tale
- The Man of Law's Tale
- The Wife of Bath's Tale
- The Friar's Tale
- The Summoner's Tale
- The Clerk's Tale
- The Merchant's Tale
- The Squire's Tale
- The Franklin's Tale
- The Physician's Tale
- The Pardoner's Tale
- The Shipman's Tale
- The Prioress's Tale
- Sir Thopas
- The Tale of Melibee
- The Monk's Tale
- The Nun's Priest's Tale
- The Second Nun's Tale
- The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
- The Manciple's Tale
- The Parson's Tale
- The Plowman's Tale
- The Tale of Gamelyn
- Siege of Thebes
- Prologue and Tale of Beryn
- The Canterbury Tales (1972)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634 play)
- The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven) (1917 opera)
- Canterbury Tales (1964 musical)
- Trinity Tales (1975)
- Canterbury Tales (2003)
derivations
- The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
- Chanticleer and the Fox
- The Book of the Dun Cow
- Palamon and Arcite (Edwardes)
- "Palamon and Arcite" (Dryden)
- God Spede the Plough
- "The Pilgrim's Tale"
- Chaucer's Retraction
- Descriptive Catalogue
- Ellesmere Chaucer
- "Have a nice day"
- Hengwrt Chaucer
- The Tabard