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Epigram. 29. Velle paupertatis suæ.
Tis strange, now I am poore what I would do,What Hospitals what Almse-houses vpreare;
Build Vpton-bridge in Worc'ster-shire anew;
Giue toplesse Paules one more sky-threatning Spire;
Bring Thames to Oxford, Wye into North-wales,
Trent to Northampton, Seauern into Trent,
Auon to Seauern; All to carry Sailes
Quite from the sea into the Continent:
Helpe Widdowes, Orphanes, Maymed, and the Poore,
With Wadam build a Colledge for the godly;
Erect (so farre surpassing all before)
A Library with all praise-worthy Bodly:
Make a huge chaine from Douer reach to Callis
For to secure all passengers for France,
Free Bond-slaues, ransom Captiues from the Gallies,
All honest Sea-wrackt Marchants re-aduance.
Nay more, what Learned Bacon left vndone,
Engirt Great Brittaine with a Brazen Wall:
On thousand good deeds now my mind doth run
Now I can nothing, now I would do all
Sure I am too well giuen, to grow rich.
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