In the play 'The Life and Death of Iack Straw', 1594, the parson (John Ball), in the company of Wat Tyler, Nobs and Tom Miller, speaks thusly:

Neighbours, neighbours! the weakest now-a-days goes to the wall;
But mark mys words, and follow the counsell of John Ball.
England is grown to such a pass of late,
That rich men triumph to see the poor beg at their gate.
But I am able, by good Scripture, before you to prove
That God doth not this dealing allow nor love.
But when Adam delved, and Eve span,
Who was then a gentleman?

[Ball contines for nearly a whole page of text, preaching a variety of communism.]