Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.

The Beggar.

A pampered menial drove me from the door.[433:1]

The Beggar.

Footnotes

[433:1] This line stood originally, "A liveried servant," etc., and was altered as above by Goldsmith.—Forster: Life of Goldsmith, vol. i. p. 215 (fifth edition, 1871).


MRS. BARBAULD.  1743-1825.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,

And souls are ripened in our northern sky.