Bondmen and bastardes, And beggers children, Thuse bylongeth to labour.
For all sortes of beggers are obedient to his hests, and surmounteth all others in pylfring and stealinge.
Beggers in their beds take as much pleasure as Kings: can we therefore surfet on this delicate Ambrosia?
Of the beggers aunswere to mayster Skelton the poete.
Mary, syr, quod the begger, there is no roume for suche poure beggers as I am: all is kepte for suche gentyl men as ye be.
For whan I see beggers quaking, 6495 Naked on mixens al stinking, For hungre crye, and eek for care, I entremete not of hir fare.
If I want Gold, steale but a beggers Dogge, And giue it Timon, why the Dogge coines Gold.
I had rather be a Beggers Dogge, Then Apemantus Ape.
If in her Marriage my consent be missing, I call the Gods to witnesse, I will choose Mine heyre from forth the Beggers of the world, And dispossesse her all Tim.
Nay, theres nere a why but there is a wherefore; I have known some have done the like, and they have daunst a galliard at Beggers bush[1804] for it.
For, touchynge our-selfes, we are but drudgys, 455 And very beggers save onely our tole, B iv Whiche is ryght smale and yet many grudges For gryste of a busshell to gyve a quarte bole.
Now Little John he is a begging gone, Seeking for some relief; But of all the beggers he met on the way, Little John he was the chief.
Robin Hood, "Come, Little John, tell unto me; How hast thou sped with thy beggers trade?
Conceit more rich in matter then in words, Brags of his substance, not of Ornament: They are but beggers that can count their worth, But my true Loue is growne to such excesse, I cannot sum vp some of halfe my wealth Fri.
Come hither come; Come, come, and take a Queene Worth many Babes and Beggers Pro.
O reason not the need: our basest Beggers Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
As I remember, this should be the house, Being holy day, the beggers shop is shut.
Canst thou, when thou command'st thebeggers knee, Command the health of it?
The first of these is "A Supplicacyon for the Beggers written about the year 1529, by SIMON FISH.
I praie you shewe me by what occasion or meanes, this huge nomber of Beggers and Vacaboundes doe breede here in Englande.
Hereby growes the greate and huge nomber of Beggers and Vacaboundes, which by no reasonable meanes or lawes could yet be brought to woorke, being thus idely brought vp.
First therefore we will diuide this our nation into two parts: into beggers, and those that susteine both themselues, and amongst others, beggers also.
Thanne was Falsnesse fayn, And Favel as blithe, And leten somone alle segges 1200 In shires aboute, And bad hem alle be bown, Beggers and othere, To wenden with hem to Westmynstre To witnesse this dede.
Idle beggers are such either through other mens occasion, or [Sidenote: A thing often seene.
The gods preserve your majesty, The beggers all gan cry: 50 Vouchsafe to give your charity Our childrens food to buy.
Who indeede, to speake more trulie, are become beggersfor their servants.
A beggers life is for a King: Eat, drink and play, sleep when we list, Go where we will so stocks be mist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
