[Opera enim illorum sequuntur illos.—]

Batauntliche, as beggeris doon,

And boldeliche he craveth,

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For his poverte and his pacience,

A perpetuel blisse.

[Beati pauperes, quoniam ipsorum]

[est regnum cælorum.]

"And pride in richesse regneth

Rather than in poverte;