In social converse with the man of straw.
Extremes oft meet around the festive board,
An honest beggar and a thieving lord;
Jew, Gentile, Greek, will with the Christian sit,
Say grace, or not—it matters not a whit;
They pass the time most pleasantly away,
But cheat each other on the coming day.
The rich, the poor, the freeman and the slave,