Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

Book i. Prose 4, Book ii. Prose 3, and in Book iii. Prose 4. In the first

of these passages, Boethius recalls the manner in which he withstood one
Conigastus, because he oppressed the poor (l. 40); and how he defeated the
iniquities of Triguilla, 'provost' (_præpositus_) of the royal household
(l. 43). He takes credit for defending the people of Campania ...