Whom crimes, misfortunes, errors only teach
To seek their food where’er within their reach;
Who for their parents’ sins, or for their own,
Are now as vagrants, wanderers, beggars known,
Hunted and hunting through the world, to share 180
Alms and contempt, and shame and scorn to bear;
Whom Law condemns, and Justice, with a sigh,
Pursuing, shakes her sword and passes by.—
If to the prison we should these commit,
They for the gallows will be render’d fit.