means to live according to their callings, bring up their children, it breaks their hearts, they cannot do as they would.  No greater misery than for a lord to have a knight’s living, a gentleman a yeoman’s, not to be able to live as his birth and place require.  Poverty and want are generally corrosives to all kinds of men, especially to such as have been in good and flourishing estate, are suddenly distressed, [2266]nobly born, liberally brought up, and, by some disaster and casualty miserably dejected.  For the rest, as they have base fortunes, so have they base minds correspondent, like beetles, e stercore orti, e stercore victus, in stercore delicium, as they were obscurely born and bred, so they delight in obscenity; they are not thoroughly touched with it. Angustas animas angusto in pectore versant. [2267]Yet, that which is no small cause of their torments, if once they come to be in distress, they are forsaken of their fellows, most part neglected, and left unto themselves; as poor [2268]Terence in Rome was by Scipio, Laelius, and Furius, his great and noble friends.

       “Nil Publius Scipio profuit, nil ei Laelius, nil Furius,
        Tres per idem tempus qui agitabant nobiles facillime,
        Horum ille opera ne domum quident habuit conductitiam."[2269]

’Tis generally so, Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris, he is left cold and comfortless, nullas ad amissas ibit amicus opes, all flee from him as from a rotten wall, now ready to fall on their heads.  Prov. xix. 1.  “Poverty separates them from their [2270]neighbours.”

[2271] “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