[Alice and her Mother enter the Shop. The Tax-gatherers go to her. One of them lays hold of her. She screams. Tyler goes in.]
Col. You say she’s under age.
[Alice screams again. Tyler knocks out the Tax-gatherer’s brains. His Companions fly.]
Piers. A just revenge.
Tyler. Most just indeed; but in the eye of the law
’Tis murder—and the murderer’s lot is mine.
Morceau IV.—Song.
‘When Adam delv’d and Eve span,
‘Who was then the gentleman?’
Wretched is the infant’s lot,