Defiant Man's Note

Jermen Hert declares he will not be pushed around any more, whether by men or devils come to collect their due. His work, his land and his family are his own; if they come to cut him down, so be it.

Weary of crawling with his face in the mud, he would rather rest in his grave than toil for a new monster — and died, he writes, with no master nor whip above him.