Elizabeth:
What?
Mrs. Cromwell:
I said Methuselah.
Elizabeth:
He says John's the bravest man in England.
Mrs. Cromwell:
Just because he won't pay a tax. How if everybody refused to pay taxes? If you don't have taxes, I don't see how you are to have a government. Though I can't see that it governs anybody, except those that don't need it.
Elizabeth:
Oliver says it's a wrong tax, this ship money.