For as soon as any man offend any of these gorgeous gentlemen, he is put out, deprived, and thrust from all his goods.
"The common pastures left by our predecessors for our relief and our children are taken away.
"The lands which in the memory of our fathers were common, those are ditched and hedged in and made several; the pastures are enclosed, and we shut out.
"We can no longer bear so much, so great, and so cruel injury; neither can we with quiet minds behold so great covetousness, excess, and pride of the nobility.

We will rather take arms, and mix Heaven and earth together, than endure so great cruelty.
"Nature hath provided for us, as well as for them; hath given us a body and a soul, and hath not envied us other things.

While we have the same form, and the same condition of birth together with them, why should they have a life so unlike unto ours, and differ so far from us in calling?
"We see that things have now come to extremities, and we will prove the extremity.

We will rend down hedges, fill up ditches, and make a way for every man into the common pasture.

Finally, we will lay all even with the ground, which they, no less wickedly than cruelly and covetously, have enclosed.
"We desire liberty and an indifferent (or equal) use of all things.