If the nobles had not conquered the poor folk it is like enough that we should not have conquered the nobles." "But they must be sorry folk to bow down to the rich in such a fashion," said big John.

"I am but a poor commoner of England myself, and yet I know something of charters, liberties franchises, usages, privileges, customs, and the like.

If these be broken, then all men know that it is time to buy arrow-heads." "Aye, but the men of the law are strong in France as well as the men of war.

By my hilt! I hold that a man has more to fear there from the ink-pot of the one than from the iron of the other.

There is ever some cursed sheepskin in their strong boxes to prove that the rich man should be richer and the poor man poorer.