[[Glossa.]] Coempcioun, that is to seyn, comune achat or bying
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to-gidere, that were establisshed up-on the poeple by swiche a manere
imposicioun, as who-so boughte a busshel corn, he moste yeve the king
the fifte part.
[Textus.] [Paulin], a counseiller of Rome, the richesses of the
whiche Paulin the [houndes] of the palays, that is to seyn, the officeres,
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wolden han devoured by hope and covetise, yit drow I him out of
the Iowes (sc. faucibus) of hem that gapeden. And for as moche