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1453.

[Behold a favourite of the skies!]

And there was a certain beggar named, &c. —xvi. 20.

Behold a favourite of the skies!
Before the glutton's gate he lies
In pining want and pain,
Cover'd with wounds and loathsome sores,
Relief he silently implores,
But asks the crumbs in vain.