Question

According to this rhyme, who is a “greater villain” than the person who would steal a goose from the common?

Answer 1

This seventeenth-century rhyme is about the enclosures (the closing of the commons) in England. Read the rhyme, then answer the questions. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose.