That by the wearie way were traueiling,
And one sate wayting euer them before,
To call in commers-by[342], that needy were and pore.
The first of them that eldest was, and best, xxxvii
Of all the house had charge and gouernement,
As Guardian and Steward of the rest:
His office was to giue entertainement
And lodging, vnto all that came, and went:
Not vnto such, as could him feast againe,
And double quite, for that he on them spent,