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King
People whose surname is or was King include:
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And clepeth, and that other hiereth:
Of that he was so debonaire
What thing.html">thing it were he wolde preie,
This king.html">king was glad, and stille stod, 180
And al/al.html">al the world.html">world.html">world he caste aboute,
And with himself stod in debat
Ben lievest unto mannes kinde.
The tuo ben worschipe and profit.
Delit, thogh I delit mai have, 190
That is no siker avantage,
Schal ende in wo: delit forthi
I axe and of the world lordschipe,
Of proud ymaginacion,
Ther is no certain forto winne, 200
Whan thei be bore and whan thei deie.
I not in what manere I scholde
For every thief upon richesse
Such good.html">good is cause of harmes fele.
Of al the world withinne his wones 210
Yit hadde he bot o mannes del
Of clothinge and of mete and drinke,
Ther hath no lord.html">lord in his degre."
Diverseliche he gan reherce
Bot pleinly forto gete him reste 220
And natheles yit ate laste
Of gold.html">gold.html">gold.html">gold.html">gold.html">gold; and thanne in sondri wise
Hou tresor mai be sone lore,
Touchende of such recoverir,
To gete him gold withoute faile. 230
The gold, and seith hou that it peiseth
"The gold," he seith, "may lede an host
The gold put under alle thing,
The gold can make of hate love
And long to schort and schort to long; 240
Gold is the lord of man.html">man and beste,
So that a man mai sothly telle
Forthi this king to Bachus preieth
Mesure more than him nedeth.
Which cleped is ydropesie 250
Be weie of kinde of Avarice:
The more him thursteth, for him thinketh
So that ther mai nothing fulfille
And riht in such a maner plit
The more he hath of worldes good, 260
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