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Blessed be the mercifull: for they shall obtaine Mercy.

Math. 5. 7.
What wit hath Man to leaue that Wealth behind
Which he might carry hence when hence he goes?
What Almes he giues aliue, he, dead, doth find;
But what he leaues behind him, he doth lose.
To giue away then, is to beare away;
They most do hold, who haue the openest Hands:
To hold too hard makes much the lesse to stay:
Thogh stay there may more then the Hand commands.
The Beggers Belly is the batful'st Ground
That we can sow in: For, it multiplies
Our Faith, and Hope, and makes our Loue abound;
And, what else Grace, and Nature deerely prize:
So thus, may Kings be richer in their Graue
Then in their Thrones; thogh all the world they haue!