What is "begger"

Usage examples of "begger".

Put a begger on horseback, and he will ride fast, or else break his neck.

I scantly knew him : for fortune had brought him into such estate and calamity, that he verily seemed as a common begger that standeth in the streets to crave the benevolence of the passers by.

I passe nothing at all, yet thinke you not that I am an abject or a begger, neither judge you my vertue and prowesse by ragged clothes, for I have beene a Captaine of a great company, and subdued all the countrey of Macedonia.

When the dead lie there undressed on the wooden bench they all look alike, and the begger lies as still as the favorite son of a king.

Affliction smarts most in the most happy state, as having somewhat in it of Bellisarius at Beggers bush, or Bajazet in the grate.