Rivers of riches run into the coffers of your landlords, while you are par'd to the quick, and fed upon pease and oats like beasts.

You are fleeced by these landlords for their private benefit, and as well kept under by the public burdens of State, wherein while the richer sort favour themselves, ye are gnawn to the very bones.
Your tyrannous masters often implead, arrest, and cast you into prison, so that they may the more terrify and torture you in your minds, and wind your necks more surely under their arms....

Harmless counsels are fit for tame fools; for you who have already stirred, there is no hope but in adventuring boldly." "The Rebels' Complaint" is equally definite and outspoken.

It rehearsed the wrongs of a landless peasantry, and called on the people to end these wrongs by open rebellion.

The note of social equality is struck by Ket throughout the rising.
"The present condition of possessing land seemeth miserable and slavish--holding it all at the pleasure of great men; not freely, but by prescription, and, as it were, at the will and pleasure of the lord.