A Familiar Dialogue of the Friend and the Fellow

A Famylyer Dyaloge of the Freende and Felaw, a late fifteenth-century translation of the Latin work Dialogus familiaris amici et sodalis (c.1425) by Alain Chartier, is a forceful prose work which laments the ruinous conditions of France caused by the corruption and vices, especially avarice and ambition, of the rulers, the army, and the common people in the early fifteenth century.