[195] 2 Law of Contracts, 225-29.
[196] Pierce, American Railroad Law, 489.
[197] West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad Co. v. Miles; 55 Pennsylvania State R., 209 (1867).
“Pallida Mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas,
Regumque turres.”—Carm. I. iv. 13-14.
[199] This sentiment of Equality appears also in the “Roman de la Rose,” an early poem of France, where the bodies of princes are said to be worth no more than that of a ploughman:—
“Car lor cors ne vault une pomme
Oultre le cors d’ung charruier.”—vv. 18792-3.
[200] Romaunt of the Rose, 2187-97: Poetical Works, ed. Tyrwhitt (London, Moxon, 1843).