For hunger dye, and for cold quake;

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God can wel vengeaunce therof take.

[Thre] gret mischeves hem assailith,

And thus in gadring ay travaylith;

With moche peyne they winne richesse;

And drede hem holdith in distresse,

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To kepe that they gadre faste;

With sorwe they leve it at the laste;