Or imposition on the towne is lay’d,
As subsidies or fifteenes[29] for the King,
Or to mend bridges, churches, anything,
Then those that have of geese the greatest store
Must to these taxes pay so much the more.
Nor can a man be raised to dignity
But as his geese increase and multiply;
And as men’s geese do multiply and breed
From office unto office they proceed.
A man that hath but with twelve geese began