And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Ver. 15. And he will take the tenth of your seed.] Violently, and not by order of law; pilling and polling you unreasonably, though he receive of his subjects no less sums of curses than of coin, as our King John did, gathering money, the sinews of war, but losing love, the cement of peace. a
a Speed.