Note 199 — EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW PROTECTED BY NATIONAL STATUTE.
Reading edition
This sentiment of Equality appears also in the “Roman de la Rose,” an early poem of France, where the bodies of princes are said to be worth no more than that of a ploughman:—
“Car lor cors ne vault une pomme Oultre le cors d’ung charruier.”—vv. 18792-3.