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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)

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31. To a rich man, become poore.

Your poverty should be the more esteemed,
That by the meanes thereof you are exeemed
From stubborne servants, lying Sycophants,
And faigned friends: in lieu whereof, it grants
These three of a more vertuous company,
Ease, humble cariage, and sobriety.