Odyssey

Then Odysseus said, "Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something. I am too old to care about remaining here at the beck and call of a master. Therefore let this man do as you have just told him, and take me to the town as soon as I have had a warm by the fire, and the day has got a little heat in it. My clothes are wretchedly thin, and this frosty morning I shall be perished with cold, for you say the city is some way off."

OdysseyBook 17, Line 16Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 17

HomerProseID odyssey-odyssey-butler-en-prose-17-16