Piers Plowman Passus 8-9

Passus 8 makes me quite annoyed, but right now I'm not really sure who I should be annoyed at. The passus begins with Truth finally doing something in the poem. He sends a pardon to Piers and those who worked with him on his land: "Truthe herde telle therof, and to Pere sente / To takyn his tem, and his erthe tylie / And purchas him a pene et a culpa" (A, 8, 1-3). However, we later see that the pardon is not actually a pardon: a priest comes along and translates the words into English. The "pardon" simply says that those who did good deeds will go into heaven and those who did bad deeds will go to hell. This raises some interesting questions. For one, Piers is obviously literate. He straight up tells the priest that he knows how to read: "'Abstinence myn aunte myn A B C taughte, / and Consciens cem after, and taughte me moche more'" (A, 8, 119-120). Also, having worked for Truth for 40 years, I would have somewhat expected him to know some Latin with how often these people have been using it. How is it then that he couldn't read the supposed pardon util the priest translated it for him? Truth gave out pardons to many other people as well (those who worked, the bishops, and the knights) and half-pardons and or advice to the merchants and lawyers. How did nobody realize that the Piers' pardon was fake? Also, did only Piers get a fake pardon, or did everyone else get one too? I would assume the former is true (or else nobody else knew that their pardon was nonexistent), which raises even more questions, this time about Truth's character. This is his only action so far in the entire poem. What does it say about him then, if this action was to send a pardon to almost everyone but Piers, his servant for 40 years? He most likely knew that Piers couldn't read it because again, he knew him for 40 years. Truth has often been associates with love in the poem, and I don't see much love in doing what he did (I mean, it's basically a slap in the face for Piers). Is there some ulterior motive that I'm missing here? Is Truth even a "good" person? Is Piers? This passus is the end of the dream, so I guess there won't be any more answers in the play.
Now for some random, unrelated thoughts. The poem continues to show its dislike towards beggars, which is basically expected. I would have liked to see more of the banter between the priest and Piers because their insults were pretty good. Abstinence would have been an interesting character to see (I also find it kind of funny that someone has "Abstinence" as their aunt).
Passus 9 begins withe the dreamer actually doing things. I liked the idea that Dowel is never always with any one person because humans aren't perfect beings. He then falls asleep again (big surprise) and argues with Thought. I wonder if Thought is the personification of the dreamer's own thoughts or he is the manifestation of the thoughts of humans in general. If it the the former, I find it amusing that he is literally talking to his thoughts as he is dreaming. This passus seems to be some kind of introduction (it does say "Prologus" at the beginning, so I am interested to see where this leads.