Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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A Rich Man pleading Poverty, condemned. [ 1535]
ALexander the fifth,* 1.1 Pope of Rome, said of himself, That when he was a Bishop, he was Rich; when a Cardinal, poor; and when a Pope, a very beggar:
And plainly, so it is in these strait-laced times of ours with too many wretched
Rich men; who the Richer they are, the more wretched they are; as their store
is enlarged, their Charity is contracted; such as having a M••le in their Flock,
sacrifice to the Lord a corrupt thing,* 1.2 such as ride on Horses with golden chains,
lye on beds of Ivory, eat of the fattest, and cloath with the softest, yet when they
come to the matter of Charity,* 1.3 to the relief of the Poor, pauperrimis redduntur pau∣periores,
they plead Poverty and make themselves more Poor then the poorest.