ABSTRACT
One of the more baffling encounters in Piers Plowman occurs just after the dreamer has run away from Scripture to follow Fortune and her dubious female attendants. When the arrival of Elde has made him doubt the wisdom of his actions, he has inconclusive talks with Scripture, the dead Emperor Trajan, and, as he says darkly, ‘much more’ with some unnamed disputant, before being called away by Kynde to look at the wonders of the world.
