'As You Like It'
William Shakespeare
Enclosure, Vagrancy, Sedition in Tudor-Stuart Period
Ignobly did oppresse
His Tenants, raising Rents to such exesse:
That they their states not able to maintaine,
They turn'd starke beggers in a yeare or twaine.
Yet though this Lord were too too miserable,
He in his House kept a well furnish'd Table:
Great store of Beggers dayly at his Gate,
Which he did feed, and much Compassionate.
(For 'tis within the power of mighty men
To make five hundred Beggers, and feed ten.)
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