A depiction of an 18th-century squire, ostensibly representing roger bacon's supposed 13th-century peasant father. ". . For, sirrah, said he, have i any body else to leave my farm to but you? and yet you take upon you forsooth to be a scholar, and consequently a gentleman, for they profess themselves so; you live upon the fruit of other men's labour? marry, go ye up goodman-two-shoes, your great grandfather, grandfather, and i, have thought it no scorn to dig and drive; and pray what are you better than us?" (p. 5). Date: 1802.
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