One for Sorrow by Chloe Rhodes

Author:Chloe Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael O' Mara Books
Published: 2011-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Folke saie alwaie, beggers shulde be no choosers.

Subsequent collections usually had ‘must not’ – which places the emphasis firmly on the fact that beggars had no option. It meant that if a beggar was offered work or lodgings, perhaps by the Church or a privately funded charity, they should accept with good grace and be glad of whatever they were given rather than making further demands.

The first time ‘Beggars can’t be choosers’ was used in print seems to be in an American novel, Snatched from the poor-house: a young girl’s life history by N. J. Clodfelter, published in1888. Over time, and perhaps influenced by the twentieth century’s more sympathetic attitudes towards homelessness, this version has taken over, and we now most often use the phrase when describing a decision of our own to take whatever we can get if there’s something we really need.

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