Note 16 — BOOK I.
Reading edition
Note 2, page 128, lines 345 and 346.
And, waiting long, the crowd retire distress'd
To think a poor man's bones should lie unbless'd.
Some apology is due for the insertion of a circumstance by no means common: that it has been a subject for complaint in any place is a sufficient reason for its being reckoned among the evils which may happen to the poor, and which must happen to them exclusively; nevertheless, it is just to remark, that such neglect is very rare in any part of the kingdom, and in many parts is totally unknown.