II.ii.167 (375,3)

Good king, that must approve the common saw!

Thou out of heaven's benediction com'at

To the warm sun!]

That art now to exemplify the common proverb, _That out of_, &c. That

changest better for worse. Hanmer observes, that it is a proverbial

saying, applied to those who are turned out of house and home to the

open weather. It was perhaps first used of men dismissed from an

hospital, or house of charity, such as was erected formerly in many

places for travellers. Those houses had names properly enough alluded to

by _heaven's benediction_.

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