Note 276 — APPENDIX.
Edward Rehatsek translation
It is significant that the “maxims” of the beggars are identical in the Latin story, in Gower, and in the version from Western India. In Gower one beggar cries:
“Ha, Lord, wel may the man be riche Whom that a king list for to riche”;
the other exclaims:
“But he is riche and wel bego Whom that God wold sende wele.”