Cloath’d
Cloath’d are the Naked, and the Needy glad,
While selfish Avarice alone is sad.
Precepts of Charity.
Proud Coaches pass, regardless of the Moan,
Of Infant Orphans, and the Widow’s Groan;
While Charity still moves the Walker’s Mind,
His lib’ral Purse relieves the Lame and Blind.
Judiciously thy Half-pence are bestow’d,
Where the laborious Beggar sweeps the Road.
Whate’er you give, give ever at Demand,
Nor let Old-Age long stretch his palsy’dpalsy’d: “privation of motion or feeling, or both, proceeding from some cause below the cerebellum, joined with a coldness, flaccidity, and at last wasting of the parts” (Johnson).
Hand.
Those who give late, are importun’d each Day;
And still are teaz’d, because they still delay.
If e’er the Miser durst his Farthings spare,
He thinly spreads them through the publick Square,
Where, all beside the Rail, rang’drang’d: organized in a line. Beggars lie,
And from each other catch the dolefuldoleful: sorrowful or querulous; also full of “dole,” deceitful, fraudulent.
Cry;
Wi