Whan I say the fortunes and 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 dereyere, hadde hise gerneres ful of corn, and comaundede that no man ne sholde byen no corn til his corn weresold, and that at a grevous dere prys, Boece withstood that ordinaunce, and over-com it, knowinge al this the king him-self.