pore folk, that the covetyse of straungeres unpunished tourmenteden
alwey with miseyses and grevaunces out of noumbre? Never man
ne drow me yit fro right to wronge. Whan I say the fortunes and
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the richesses of the poeple of the provinces ben harmed or
amenused, outher by privee ravynes or by comune tributes or
[cariages], as sory was I as they that suffreden the harm.
Glossa. Whan that Theodoric, the king of Gothes, in a dere
yere, hadde hise gerneres ful of corn, and comaundede that no man
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