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[verse 9] Who loueth gold shall lacke, and he who couets much want store,
[verse 10] With wealth charge growes, the owner but, moreaseth paine the more.
9.
He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shall be without the fruit thereof: this also is va∣nitie.
What though the world (through hateful lust of gold)
Be thus transported with a greedy mind,
To purchase wealth, which makes the coward bold,
To search land, sea, and hell, the same to find?
Yet (as it doth increase) so doth desire,
And soone consume as oyle amidst the fire.
A iust reward of so vnworthy trade,
As doth debase nobilitie of soule,
Which (made immortal) scornes those things that vade,
And in the wise should earthly'affects controule:
But mouldwarp like, these blindfold grope in vaine,
Vaine their desires, more vaine the fruit they gaine.
10.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding ther¦of with their eyes?
If honor, wealth, and calling do excell
The common sort, so charge doth grow with all:
Few with a litle sure, may liue as well,
As many may, though greater wealth befall:
It is not wealth, to haue of goods great store,
But wealth to be suffisd and need no more.
Who hath aboundance, and it vseth well,
Is but a steward to his family,
A purse-bearer for such as neare him dwell,
An Amner to the poore (that helplessely)
He but his share doth spend (though somwhat better)
And what he leaues, he is to world a detter.