The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

THE BEGGAR’S OPERA INTRODUCTION BEGGAR, PLAYER. BEGGAR. If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles’s. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner