Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Ver. 18. Yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.] Or be miserably beaten, if but one be missing. The Spaniards, besides other intolerable burdens and bondages that they lay upon the poor Indians, suppose they show the wretches great favour when they do not, for their pleasure, whip them with cords, and day by day drop their naked bodies with burning bacon. a Regimen without righteousness turns into tyranny.
a Sir Francis Drake's World Encompas., p. 53.