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Flamma sine Fumo

or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns]

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The poor Widows mite.

Our Saviour did prefer the Widows mite
Before the rich mens gifts: God takes delight

More in the heart, than hands; and he doth measure
How great our love is, not how much our treasure:
Give all thy full possessions, but thy love,
Thy gift will an abomination prove.
Love makes cold water wine, small actions great,
And without love no bounty is compleat.