Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Labourer

The labourer is worthy of his hire.
St. Luke, Chap. x. Ver. 7.

A sunburnt daughter of labour rose up from the group to meet me, as I advanced towards them.
Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. VII. Chap. XLIII.