Marginalia: An Early Modern Annotator of "Piers Plowman"

British Library Additional 35157. I've only included a small fraction of the annotations-- this manuscript is more marked up than my undergrad copy of The Four Quartets ("SYMBOLISM," "IRONY," "like the Fool [tarot card]"). So I'm highlighting my favorite (= most interesting) annotations, which are highlighting the annotator's favorite (= most interesting) passages of the poem. Am I postmodern or what?

• "will the catt ye king and the kittines destroy" (I)
• "harlottes are sonnest hole"
• “against bawdy Jesters”
• "famous Kinge Henvry Viij fulfilled in his time"
• "Reson always ruleth in beast but not in Man for man surfeteth [surfeits] in meate, drynke in women, aparel and in wordes"
• "no muritt [merit] in any works instisinige faith only working" (I)
• "Meed a durtie common Strumpit both in siuill [civil] laws and common" (I)
• “Meed ye Pops Darlinge” (I)
• "Peers liued in Henri the sixt his daies who lost his heritage in Fraunce which his father had wonne"
• "If men of holye Church wold do nought but right then Wold Lordes, Lawyers, and merchauntes, do lyke"
• "henri the 6 was a simpel Religious man, which was the loose of his fathers heritage in Fraunce
• "peres became a protestant  and loued his lyke" (on the following: Thus y awaked . . . clothed as a lollard . . . among lollards of londone and lewwde Ermytes)
• "no basterds"
• "basterds fitt for slauerye" 
• "the pore haue right to parte of Christes treasure in prestes handes"
• “ye dronken roge”
• "Lecherye loveth not the pore"
• "A wench ought to be A virgine butt hardly in this wickitt age"
• "truth is directly against purgatory and limbo"
• “pastors muste do as they teche”
• “ye Purpill whore of Rome”
• “not Wytte but ye grace of god”
• “England harboreth more theues and beggers then any countrie”
• "women can kepe no counsell"
• “fryers & theire orders wiped out of gods booke”
• “Doo well is better than ye Popps [Pope's] bulles”
• “bisshopes should haue no more lands then Christe hadd”
• "Aynest Monkes and Chanons"
• “nota the riche are comonly the enimies to rigt [righteousness] and truthe”
• “sterringe [stirring] the simple pepell to almes for there owne profitt”
• “theologye is no Scyeunce [Science] but a sothfast beleofe [true belief]
• "Justyce in hell Mercye in heven"
• “mercye above all godes workes”
• "Saloman and Aristotell in wysdom & workes both good yet dyed evelly"
• “the pore is euer redye to please ye Riche” (2nd annotator)
• “but ye rich hateth ye poore” (3rd annotation)
• "an Vnsownd opynion"
• “propertie bredeth singularitie & pride”
• Charitie seldom sene in ye freres [friars]"
• "an Vnsownd opynion"