the Equality of Imposition consistence rather in the
Equality of that which is consumed, than of the riches
of the persons that consume the same. For what reason
is there that he which laboured much, and sparing the
fruits of his labour, consume little, should be more
charged, than he that living idle gettered little, and
spender all he gets: seeing the one hatch no more protection
from the Common-wealth than the other? But when
the Impositions are laud upon those things which men
consume, every man payee Equally for what he use th:
Nor is the Common-Wealth defrauded by the luxurious
waste of private men