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A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN THE METROPO

        tarian reformation -- your only modern Alcides club to rid time of its abuses -- is uplift o extirpate t fluttering tatters of ty from tropolis. Scrips, s, bags -- staves, dogs, and crutc fraternity    posting out of tion. From treets and turnings of allies, ting Genius of Beggary is "."

        I do not approve of to i crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species. Muc be sucked from these Beggars.

        t and t form of pauperism. to our on nature; less revolting to an ingenuous mind to be a suppliant to ticular ure, or set of felloures, parocarian. tes uninvidious in t.

        ty springing from tion; as to be naked is to be so muco to go in livery.

        test spirits    turned scer, do oempt? Could Vandyke ure of re, y, te admiration, ic?

        tty Bessy -- tenuate, but t some sparks of a lustrous spirit    of fortune, fleeing from t sentence of ript of all, aed on ter by     a better figure, doing ter, or expiating tion upon t eminence of some sempstering shop-board?

        In tale or ory ygar is ever t antipode to your King. ts and romancical ers (as dear Margaret Nele    s a reverse of fortune, op till t do ts and t. t illustrates t ed to tion    offe divest s, till ;mere nature;" and Cresseid, fallen from a princes love, must extend ey, supplig lazar alms h bell and clap-dish.

        ts kneness    ty, tting up foul linen.

        sound in song, t a great monars upon ter of a baker! yet do ion at all violated rue ballad," he beggar maid?

        Pauperism, pauper, poor man, are expressions of pity, but pity alloyed empt. No one properly ns a beggar. Poverty is a parative t is mocked by its "neig; Its poor rents and ings-in are soon summed up and told. Its preteo property are almost ludicrous. Its pitiful attempts to save excite a smile. Every sful panion     it. Poor man reproacreets ition of ion, ter, ive insults a Beggar, or t in t uy. tetentation above y. None jostle o ejeement. No man sues o la t gentleman t I am, rataio t, a led captain, or a poor relation, I rue greatness of my mind, to be a Beggar.

        Rags, enure,    in o s of t.    required to put on court m. ume    obliged to study appearaiay. tock or land affectet. tuations of agricultural or ercial prosperity touc, or at    but ers.    expected to bee bail or surety for any one. No man troubletioning ics. he universe.

        ts of t city    is plete    turesque attire as oral as tanding morals, emblems, mementos, dial-mottos, tal sermons, tary co tide of greasy citizenry -

        --- Look

        Upon t poor and broken bankrupt there.

        Above all, tobits t used to liidiousness ing up to catcy, and (if possible) of lig t, --    of ty of double darkness, irring tread of taves? and o be s? or ied up in sacks, and dropt into t tion of B--- , tor of -- -?

        ell fare tidious Vi Bourne, most classical, and at time, most Englisinists -- ed of test of apap; and say, if ary sigle poetry as ture to do more o t and busy metropolis.

        Pauperis hic iri requiesco Lyciscus, herilis,

        Dum vixi, tutela vigil enque seae,

        Dux caeco fidus: nec, me dute, solebat,

        Praetenso que hinc baculo, per iniqua lo

        Iam explorare viam; sed fila secutus,

        Quae dubierent passus, vestigia tuta

        Fixit inoffenso gressu; gelidumque sedile

        In nudo nactus saxo, qua praetereuntium

        Unda frequens fluxit, ibi miserisque tenebras

        Lamentis, noctemque oculis ploravit obortam.

        Ploravit nec frustra; obolum dedit alter et alter,

        Queis corda et mentem i natura benignam.

        Ad latus interea jacui sopitus herile,

        Vel mediis vigil in somnis; ad herilia jussa

        Auresque atque animum arrectus, seu frustula amice

        Porrexit sociasque dapes, seu longa diei

        taedia perpessus, reditum sub nocte parabat.

        a fuit, dum fata si,

        Dum neque languebam morbis, neerte sea;

        Quae tandem obrepsit, veterique satellite cascum

        Orbavit dominum prisci sed gratia facti

        a i, longos deleta per annos,

        Exiguum umulum de cespite fecit,

        Etsi inopis, non ingratae, munuscula dextrae;

        Carmine signavitque brevi, dominumque emque

        Quod memoret, fidumque em dominumque benignum.

        Poor Irus faithful wolf-dog here I lie,

        t    to tend my old blind masters steps,

        ed,

        staff, h which

        h in fear

        Over t ,

        Safe in t of my friendly string,

        A firm foot forill, till he had reachd

        on some stone, nigide

        Of passers by in t fluence flowd:

        to s

        From morn to eve ate he waild.

        Nor o all in vain: some here,

        their pennies gave.

        I mea    obsequious slept;

        Not all-asleep in sleep,     and ear

        Prickd up at    motion; to receive

        At omary crums,

        And on portion in    of scraps;

        Or

        itedious beggary.

        this my way of life,

        till age and sloook,

        And severd from my sigers side.

        But lest the grace of so good deeds should die,

        tract of years in mute oblivion lost,

        tomb of turf h Irus reared,

        C of no ungrudging hand,

        And    verse inscribed it, to attest,

        In long and lasting union to attest,

        tues of the Beggar and his Dog.

        t a    of to glide s of London, y upon a macacle to natives, tners, and to c make, o torm and sunsural curiosity, a speculation to tific, a prodigy to t are at ty man brougo y, vieoutness, and y , of t. Fe must iced , s of 1780, and eus, and to su fres; as good as an Elgin marble. ture,    lost, but only retired into s, and remendous voice ting do eed t arted at entous appearance. o    but    stature to    t of a taur, from    ion ing; and    yet a jolly tenance upon ty-and-trade, and no    s o exts of a p uma one of tened) of Corre.

        as a daily spectacle like to be deemed a nuisanove? or not ratary and a touc, to t city? -- Among y (and    an accumulation of sigs -- is a great city; or for    desirable?)    room for one Lusus (not Naturae, indeed, but) Actium?    if in forty-and-t, togeto give a portion to ributors    for t if after being exposed all day to ts, ts of runk along in an elaborate and painful motion -- o retire at nigo enjoy    a club of    meat aables, as t against tee -- ruly paternal sideration, atue rat, and is insistent at least ion of noal ies ed in urdy vagabond? --

        t    o e do t, and to ion, ay, aoo, for a panionable symbol. "Age, t lost t; -

        ories about tunes made by begging are (I verily believe) misers calumnies. One ime since, and table inferences deduced. A clerk in t of a five    rao. It seems t in s)    ty years to drop o t of some blind Bartimeus, t sate begging alms by tor by t all t [p 120] ury pering) to ory to purse up peoples s, and pennies, against giving an aims to t ratiful moral of ed    t, and noble gratitude upon ther?

        I sometimes wis Bank clerk.

        I seem to remember a poor old grateful kind of creature, blinking, and looking up he sun --

        Is it possible I could eeled my purse against him?

        Perhaps I had no small ge.

        Reader, do not be frig tion, imposture -- give, and ask no questions. Cast ters. Some ertained angels.

        S ns al painted distress. Act a etimes. ure (outay to inquire ence. Rake not into truto save a    is good to believe    all t e) t t relieved an i bacerfeit looks, and mumping too see a edian feign t not certainly tell w.
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