peasantry (n.)
- bourgeoisie
- commonage
- commonality
- commonalty
- commons
- proletariat
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,—
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
