BanjoRay: Is there for honest poverty [a man] that hangs his head and a' that?

i.e. Is there a man who has no self-respect just because he is poor? If so, we'll rate him as a cowardly slave, for we see no shame in being poor for all that our work is of the ordinary kind. Wealth is just a hallmark on gold, manhood is the gold itself.

Or, something like that