Ner.Why not?
Sen.The treasury,
Eased of this sum, must fill the deficit
By other means. If you cut off the customs,
You must increase the tributes, rates, and rents.
If one shoe pinches, ’tis no remedy
To stuff both feet in the other.
Ner.But my scheme
Has precedent; there was no tallage taken
Throughout all Italy for some six years