Morgan: I can solve your problem with my magic.
Mordred: At what price?
Morgan: I want to be court wizard and get funding for my magical research. When I run out of swamp toad bile, I want to be able to pay enthusiastic youths to get it for me.
Mordred: Seems like a bargain.
* Fifty years later *
Alice: Which swamp is it again?
Bob: Let me check the map.
* suddenly, an armed band of thugs leaps out from the bush *
Thug: Stand and deliver, villains!
Alice: Villains? Nay! We are but simple travelers who seek the swamp that lays beyond these woods.
Thug: Not so! You do the king's bidding, oppressing the peasants with backbreaking taxes.
Alice: And you help the poor?
Thug: Yes, for I am Loxley the Lethal, and my band of Merry Men rob from the rich and give to the poor!
Alice: You need to get better branding.
Bob: We don't work for the king!
Loxley: But you do work for Morgan Le Fay, court enchantress. Why else would you seek the swamp?
Alice: It's an honest paid job. No peasant oppressing involved.
Loxley: Not so! Morgan's pay comes from the king, whose wealth comes from taxes.
Alice: So every time we get paid... the peasants got shaken down.
Loxley: Exactly!
Bob: How did you come by such learning? I'm a bit of a scholar myself, and I've never heard of such things.
Loxley: if you wish to know more, set aside your time of spirit binding.
Loxley: Leave off studying the Necronomicon and instead study... The Economicon.
