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In the dozen years since I had been there, Italy had undoubtedly prospered, and even this beggar's paradise of sun and tourists had bettered itself after the modern way. I saw abundant signs of the new Italy of industrial expansion, which under German tutelage had begun to manufacture, to own ships, and to exploit itself. And there were also signs of war-time bloat the immense cotton business.
And would you not have thought, said she, I had deserved it. Said he, Does your pride let you see no difference in the case you put? None at all, said she. Where can the difference be between a beggar's son married by a lady, or a beggar's daughter made a gentleman's wife?
Indeed it would be a more profitable speculation to steal a beggar's rags than to rob you! Well, what did the high-priest want?"
The Prologue was the work of James Ralph, afterwards Fielding's colleague in the Champion, and it thus refers to the prevailing taste. The Beggar's Opera had killed Italian song, but now a new danger had arisen, "Humour and Wit, in each politer Age, Triumphant, rear'd the Trophies of the Stage: But only Farce, and Shew, will now go down, And Harlequin's the Darling of the Town."
'Here is your bridegroom; there is his fortune; now think! The girl made her choice, put on the beggar's garb, and went her ways with Crates. She lived with him openly and went like him to beg food at dinners. Diog. Laert. vi. 96 ff. Thus, Man has learnt to stand on two feet and use his hands; a great advantage but one which has led to numerous diseases.
"Then you serve a great general, as some of us have cause to know. Tell me, where is he now, for I hear that he has left Lesbos?" "Where is he? Why, aboard yonder ship, of course. Oh! he has fooled you finely. Another time you'll search beggar's rags more closely." "Cast off! Cast off!" roared Menas. "Nay," said the officer, "cast not off. Soldiers, drive away those men.
The shutter swung slowly open, the noise made by its collision with the wall coming clearly to our ears. A minute later the boy appeared in the doorway, and stood looking up and down. "Well," the King whispered in my ear, "what do you make of that, my friend?" I muttered that it must be a beggar's trick. "They would not earn a crown in a month," he answered.
A company of persons to drink a certain medicinal preparation, which would prove a poison, or the contrary, according to their different characters. Many persons, without a consciousness of so doing, to contribute to some one end; as to a beggar's feast, made up of broken victuals from many tables; or a patch carpet, woven of shreds from innumerable garments.
By and by the dog brought the sheep back; so that, when the Fool returned, the Knave got the credit of having found them; for the dog scorned to explain his part in the matter. As they sat together at supper, the Fool said, "The work is not so easy as I thought. Could we not find a better trade yet?" "Can you beg?" said the Knave. "A beggar's trade is both easy and profitable.
Reuben leant against the passage wall, staring at his wife. 'Yo're a hard woman, Hannah a hard woman, he said to her under his breath, in a low, shaken voice. 'An yo coed 'em beggar's brats oh Lord Lord! 'Howd your tongue, an blow up t' fire, was all the reply she vouchsafed him, and Reuben obeyed. Meanwhile upstairs Louie had been laid on her bed.
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