How if everybody refused to pay taxes?
If you don't have taxes, I don't see how you are to have a government.
Though I can't see that it governs anybody, except those that don't need
it.
_Elizabeth:_
Oliver says it's a wrong tax, this ship money.
_Mrs. Cromwell:_
There's always something wrong. It keeps men busy, I suppose.
_Elizabeth:_
But it was brave of John.
_Mrs. Cromwell:_
I know, I know. But why must he come here to-night of all in the year?
Oliver's like somebody out of the Bible about to-morrow as it is. This
will make him worse. I wish John no harm, but--well, I hope he's got a
bad horse.
_Elizabeth:_
Oliver's mind is made up about the common, whatever happens. John will
make no difference.
_Mrs. Cromwell:_
You can't pretend he'll make him more temperate.
_Elizabeth:_
It's very wrong to take away the common from the people. I think Oliver
is right.
_Mrs. Cromwell:_
Of course he's right. But I'm too old. I've seen too many broken heads.
He'll be no righter for a broken head.
(BRIDGET CROMWELL, a girl, comes. She takes some eggs from her apron and
puts them on a dish on a shelf.)
_Bridget:_
Why, grandmother, whose head is to be broken?
_Mrs. Cromwell:_
Your father's is like to be.
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