beggery

You find there the garments tossed aside by the skinny hand of Death; you hear, as it were, the gasping of consumption under a shawl, or you detect the agonies of beggery under a gown spangled with gold.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

For whome she catcheth, she throweth a foote beneth beggery, whilest thei canne finde none ende of their scrattinge, but the more thei haue, the fellier gnaweth their longing.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The Golden Vale in Herefordshire, (being ye pride of al that country,) being the richest yet (for want of employment) the plentifullest place of poore in the kingdom -- yielding two or three hundred folde; the number so increasing (idleness having gotten the upper hand;) if trades bee not raised -- beggery will carry such reputation in my quarter of the country, as if it had the whole to halves.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Various

You find there the garments tossed aside by the skinny hand of Death; you hear, as it were, the gasping of consumption under a shawl, or you detect the agonies of beggery under a gown spangled with gold.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Ant. There's beggery in the loue that can be reckon'd

Antony and Cleopatra (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

_ Is she so hot, or such a want of lovers, that she must doat upon afflictions? why does she not go romage all the prisons, and there bestow her youth, bewray her wantonness, and flie her honour, common both to beggery: did she speak to him?

Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600

For whome she catcheth, she throweth a foote beneth beggery, whilest thei canne finde none ende of their scrattinge, but the more thei haue, the fellier gnaweth their longing.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584

The fat and bloated, totally chuffing useless cunt of a PM - who has no mandate from the masses he is reducing to beggery - forgets to put his phone on silent; the useless fat lard arsed cunt.

PM Gordon Brown who looks as blated as a foie gras goose leaves his phone on. FIDO The Dog 2009

He is a Man reducMto an ex - tremity of want and beggery, becaufe difpoiPd of all true Riches which a#e only Spiritual \ becaufe he has loft what -- foever God beftowM on him in 'his Ba - pt ifme: to him no more belongs any right to his Inheritance, which is Heaven.

Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677