With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain.
A pauper who, being nearly past his labour, is employed by different masters for a length of time, proportioned to their occupations.
[16] Note 2, page 128, lines 345 and 346.
And, waiting long, the crowd retire distress'd
To think a poor man's bones should lie unbless'd.
Some apology is due for the insertion of a circumstance by no means common: that it has been a subject for complaint in any place is a sufficient reason for its being reckoned among the evils which may happen to the poor, and which must happen to them exclusively; nevertheless, it is just to remark, that such neglect is very rare in any part of the kingdom, and in many parts is totally unknown.
[17] Note 3, page 133, lines 117 and 118.
Beloved of Heaven, these humble lines forgive,
That sing of Thee, and thus aspire to live.
Lord Robert Manners, the youngest son of the Marquis of Granby and the Lady Frances Seymour, daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset, was born the 5th of February, 1758; and was placed with his brother, the late Duke of Rutland, at Eton school, where he acquired, and ever after retained, a considerable knowledge of the classical authors.