POVERTY.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

_King Henry IV., Pt. II. Act_ i. _Sc_. 2. SHAKESPEARE.

Yon friendless man, at whose dejected eye

Th' unfeeling proud one looks, and passes by,

Condemned on penury's barren path to roam,

Scorned by the world, and left without a home.

_Pleasures of Hope_. T. CAMPBELL.

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;

Robes and furred gowns hide all.

_King Lear, Act_ iv. _Sc_. 6. SHAKESPEARE.

Take physic, Pomp;

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

_King Lear, Act_ iii. _Sc_. 4. SHAKESPEARE.

O world! how apt the poor are to be proud!

_Twelfth Night. Act_ iii. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed,

Slow rises worth by poverty oppressed.

_Vanity of Human Wishes_. DR. S. JOHNSON.

And rustic life and poverty

Grow beautiful beneath his touch.

_Burns_. T. CAMPBELL.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.

_King Richard II., Act_ ii. _Sc_. 1. SHAKESPEARE.

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