"In the countrey of Canterbury, most plenty of fish is, And most chase of wild beasts, about Salisbury I wis. And London ships most, and wine at Winchester. At Hartford sheep and oxe: and fruit at Worcester. Soape about Coventry: and yron at Glocester. Metall, lead, and tinne in the countie of Exeter. Everwike of fairest wood: Lincolne of fairest men. Cambridge and Huntington most plenty of deep venne. Elie of fairest place: of fairest sight Rochester."

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