Seasonable.
Now comes the season when the humble want,
And know the misery of their wretched scant:
Go, ye, and seek their homes, who have the power,
And ease the sorrows of their trying hour.
“There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth
To him who gives, a blessing never ceaseth.”
[365] Life of Harvey, the conjuror, 8vo., 1728.
[366] Owen’s Welsh Dictionary.
[367] Graydon’s Collection of Poems, 8vo., Dublin, 1801.
[368] Eden’s State of the Poor.
[369] Shaw’s Hist. of Moray.