When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

Author:Marilynne Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen, yea and certain abbots, holy men no doubt…much annoying the pubic weal, leave no room for tillage. They enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but a church to be made a sheep-house…[The poor] must needs depart away, poor, silly, wretched souls, men, women, husbands, wives, fatherless children, widows, woeful mothers with their young babes…Away they trudge, I say, out of their known and accustomed houses, finding no place to rest in…[When they have sold whatever they have] what can they else to do but steal, and then justly be hanged, or else go about a-begging? And yet then also they be cast in prison as vagabonds, because they go out and work not, whom no man will set a-work, though they never so willingly proffer themselves thereto.

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