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 G. Have you a vote In any city or borough?

F. I have no vote at all; but am able, by my honest labour, to support my wife and four children, and, whilst I act honestly, I may defy the laws.

G. Can you be ignorant, that the Parliament to which members are sent by this country, and by the next market town, have power to make new laws, by which you and your family may be stripped of your goods, thrown into prison and even deprived of life?

F. A dreadful power! I never made enquiries, having business of my own, concerning the business of Parliament; but imagined the laws had been fixed for many hundred years.

G. The common laws to which you refer, are equal, just, and humane; but the King and Parliament may alter them when they please.

F. The King ought therefore to be a good man, and the Parliament to consist of men equally good.

G. The King alone can do no harm, but who must judge the goodness of Parliament men? who