in
purse, poor in spirit; [2238]_prout res nobis fluit, ita et animus se
habet_; [2239]money gives life and soul. Though he be honest, wise,
learned, well-deserving, noble by birth, and of excellent good parts; yet
in that he is poor, unlikely to rise, come to honour, office, or good
means, he is contemned, neglected, _frustra sapit, inter literas esurit,
amicus molestus_. [2240]"If he speak, what babbler is this?" Ecclus, his
nobility without wealth, is [2241]_projecta vilior alga_, and he not
esteemed: _nos viles pulli nati infelicibus ovis_, if once poor, we are
metamorphosed in an instant, base slaves, villains, and vile drudges;
[2242]for to be poor, is to be a knave, a fool, a wretch, a wicked, an
odious fellow, a common eyesore, say poor and say all; they are born to
labour, to misery, to carry burdens like juments, _pistum stercus comedere_
with Ulysses' companions, and as Chremilus objected in Aristophanes, [2243]
_salem lingere_, lick salt, to empty jakes, fay channels, [2244]carry out
dirt and dunghills, sweep chimneys, rub horse-heels, &c. I say nothing of
Turks, galley-slaves, which are bought [2245]and sold like juments, or
those African Negroes, or poor [2246]Indian drudges, _qui indies hinc inde
deferendis oneribus occumbunt, nam quod apud nos boves et asini vehunt,
trahunt_, &c. [2247]_Id omne misellis Indis_, they are ugly to behold, and
though erst spruce, now rusty and squalid, because poor, [2248]_immundas
fortunas aquum est squalorem sequi_, it is ordinarily so. [2249]"Others eat
to live, but they live to drudge," [2250]_servilis et misera gens nihil
recusare audet_, a servile generation, that dare refuse no
task.--[2251]_Heus tu Dromo, cape hoc flabellum, ventulum hinc facito dum
lavamus_, sirrah blow wind upon us while we wash, and bid your fellow get
him up betimes in the morning, be it fair or foul, he shall run fifty miles
afoot tomorrow, to carry me a letter to my mistress, _Socia ad pistrinam_,
Socia shall tarry at home and grind malt all day long, Tristan thresh. Thus
are they commanded, being indeed some of them as so many footstools for
rich men to tread on, blocks for them to get on horseback, or as
[2252]"walls for them to piss on." They are commonly such people, rude,
silly, superstitious idiots, nasty, unclean, lousy, poor, dejected,
slavishly humble: and as [2253]Leo Afer observes of the commonalty of
Africa, _natura viliores sunt, nec apud suos duces majore in precio quam si
canes ess