Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Ver. 7. Ye shall no more give the people straw.] Speculum tyrannidis semper augescentis atque invalescentis. "The matter mends with us," said those martyrs in prison, "as sour ale doth in summer." a
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