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20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe.
For Temperance, and other qualitiesOf greater moment, men have beene respected
Jn riches: but in poverty there is
This onely goodnesse, not to be dejected;
Whence shunning want, we means embrace, which yeeld,
To vertue a more large, and spacious field.
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