"Dum fortuna favet vultum servatis amici,
Cum cecidit, turpi vertitis ora fuga."

"Whilst fortune favour'd, friends, you smil'd on me,
But when she fled, a friend I could not see."

Which is worse yet, if he be poor [2272]every man contemns him, insults
over him, oppresseth him, scoffs at, aggravates his misery.

[2273] "Quum caepit quassata domus subsidere, partes
In proclinatas omne recumbit onus."

"When once the tottering house begins to shrink,
Thither comes all the weight by an instinct."

Nay they are odious to their own brethren, and dearest friends, Pro. xix.
7. "His brethren hate him if he be poor," [2274]_omnes vicini oderunt_,
"his neighbours hate him," Pro. xiv. 20, [2275]_omnes me noti ac ignoti
deserunt_, as he complained in the comedy, friends and strangers, all
forsake me. Which is most grievous, poverty makes men ridiculous, _Nil
habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit_,
they must endure [2276]jests, taunts, flouts, blows of their betters, and
take all in good part to get a meal's meat: [2277]_magnum pauperies
opprobrium, jubet quidvis et facere et pati_. He must turn parasite,
jester, fool, _cum desipientibus desipere_; saith [2278]Euripides, slave,
villain, drudge to get a poor living, apply himself to each man's humours,
to win and please, &c., and be buffeted when he hath all done, as Ulysses
was by Melanthius [2279]in Homer, be reviled, baffled, insulted over, for
[2280]_potentiorum stultitia perferenda est_, and may not so much as mutter
against it. He must turn rogue and villain; for as the saying is,
_Necessitas cogit ad turpia_, poverty alone makes men thieves, rebels,
murderers, traitors, assassins, "because of poverty we have sinned,"
Ecclus. xxvii. 1, swear and forswear, bear false witness, lie, dissemble,
anything, as I say, to advantage themselves, and to relieve their
necessities: [2281] _Culpae scelerisque magistra est_, when a man is driven
to his shifts, what will he not do?

[2282] ------"si miserum fortuna Sinonem
Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget."

he will betray his father, prince, and country, turn Turk, forsake
religion, abjure God and all, _nulla tam horrenda proditio, quam illi lucri
causa_ (saith [2283]Leo Afer) _perpetrare nolint_. [2284]Plato, therefore,
calls poverty, "thievish, sacrilegious, filthy, wicked, and mischievous:"
and well he might. For it makes many an u