And earn thy bread—return unto thy wife,
(It may be children, too, thou hast at home—
If home thou hast—who wait their usual doom,)
With smiling countenance; and doff the cry
Offensive t’th’ear, and spurn such charity,
And leave the generous alms to sick and poor—
Whose age or frailty, man! deserves them more.
[188] Vagrant beggars.
VIII.
The while the day the villagers improve,