There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.

你们中间有很多贵族，他们自己像雄蜂一样无所事事，他们靠别人的劳动、他们的佃户的劳动为生，为了增加收入，他们剥削了快活的人。