Note 36 — LYCKSELE LAPLAND.
Charles Troilius translation
This is no new instance of contrariety between the tyranny of man and the gospel of Christ, whose "yoke is easy and his burthen light." If these innocent people were to complain of it to their spiritual guides, they might be told, as on another occasion, see p. 130, that "it was a trifle not worth thinking about." We cannot here say with Pope,
"The devil and the king divide the prize,"
but we may presume that the fine is considered as no less indispensable an atonement than the penance.—Pity that such tractable sheep should not be better worth shearing!