ne sholde byen no corn til his corn were sold, and that at a grevous
dere prys, Boece withstood that ordinaunce, and over-com it, knowinge
al this the king him-self.
Textus. Whan it was in the soure hungry tyme, ther was
establisshed or cryed grevous and [inplitable coempcioun], that men
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sayen wel it sholde greetly turmenten and endamagen al the
province of [Campaigne], I took stryf ayeins the [provost] of the pretorie
for comune profit. And, the king knowinge of it, I overcom
it, so that the coempcioun ne was not axed ne took effect.