Comments on Arthur Versluis `Piers Plowman, `Piers Plowman, Numerical Composition, and the Prophecies.

Versluis’s essay (Connotations 1 [1991]: 103-39; see YLS 7 [1993]: 198) is criticized for relying on new terms mentioned in a work the reader cannot be expected to know, for misunderstanding the conventional nature of the phrase “somer seson,” for using the line-numbering of Schmidt’s edition (rather than that of K-D), and for misunderstanding