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people

overlaid

with taxes

should

ever

become

valiant

and

martial.

It is true

that taxes

levied by

consent of

the estate

do abate

men’s

courage

less: as

it hath

been seen

notably in

the

excises of

the Low

Countries;

and, in

some

degree, in

the

subsidies

of

England.

For you

must note

that we

speak now

of the

heart and

not of the

purse. So

that

although

the same

tribute

and tax,

laid by

consent or

by

imposing,

be all one