William Langland (ca. 1332 – ca. 1386) is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
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“on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles
Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;
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—William Langland (1330–1400)