 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - 820 pages
...interests and affections." In fact, they would exclaim with Hudibras : " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, Who iteals the common from the goose ! " Dugdale very ingeniously argues, with regard to the dreaded Bcarcity... | |
 | 1910 - 728 pages
...time immemorial. We all know the old rhyme decrying the iniquitv of the law which Punishes the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. I had always thought of a common, English or Irish,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 pages
...enclosures have been the work of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. "The law condemns both man and woman, Who steals the goose from off...felon loose, Who steals the common from the goose." — Hudibra-i. For whose advantage, and at what cost, is this done? As to the cost, the labour is said... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 pages
...enclosures have been the work of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. " The law condemns both man and woman, Who steals the goose from off...felon loose, Who steals the common from the goose." — Hitdibras. Therefore it would appear that the felons in Dartmoor prisons are set to work, by way... | |
 | Powys-land Club - 1879 - 504 pages
...improved, drained, and levelled. The House would remember the old rhyme — * ' The law condemns the man and woman, Who steals the goose from off the Common ; But does not punish, what 's far worse, To steal the Common from the goose.' He had no intention of stealing... | |
 | Almon Gunnison - 1883 - 262 pages
...listen without protest to this old saw that our horse repeats to us : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Of course we will not countenance any such heresy,... | |
 | 1885 - 630 pages
...So, adieu to this " one of Eve's family." MARTIN. AN AFTERNOON IN THE EAST-END. 11 The law condemns both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets a greater felon loose, Who steals the common from the goose." BY these words I do not for one moment... | |
 | Charles Wicksteed - 1885 - 144 pages
...been robbed of the land and is well expressed in the homely lines : — " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." This rhyme does not go far enough, however, for the law not only lets the greater felon loose, but... | |
 | Terence Vincent Powderly - 1889 - 742 pages
...plundering •of a people of the inheritance ordained for them by God. "The Law condemns the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the Common; But...felon loose, Who steals the Common from the goose." God hasten the day when the " greater felon " will be brought to justice! And may our organization... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 358 pages
...something is done to save our commons from enclosers. Well is it said : — ' ' The law is hard on man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater sinner loose Who steals the common from the goose." A gossip and a liar are as like as two peas. A... | |
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The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 
