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432 That worldly things cannot fatkfie or bring contentment. cupifcence they bring to their loners, and the leffe fatietie? Howfoeuer therefore there miters abound with Bore of true gold and filuer, yet they are but falfe riches; feeing they on- ly(!retch and inlarge the iawes o£greedie auarice,but do not fill or fatisfie them,and rather inflame then quench the hcate ofcouetoufnes. Well therefore was the fpeech of the Hea- then manfitted to the rich miter : All (faith he) account thee rich, but I affirme that thou art very poore, becaufe not the Incerti,apud pofeffìon,butthevfeiufllyintitlethriches.Ifthouartparta- stobæum, de in- ker of thy wealth, it Both by the vfe become thine owne;but iuftiria. &erro if thou referee thy riches for thine heires,prefentiy from that Pal[adæ spud time they are made other mens. To which purpofe another srabæum, faith,Thou haftindeed the riches ofa rich man,but the mind of a begger ; thou art rich to thine heires, and poore to thy felfe. §.Sec/.i4. Yea in truth thefe richmifers are of all others moll mile - That rich milers rablie Poore; for whereas all other men want many things, areofall others there want all; feeing they want as well that they haue, as poore.FE. that they haue not : for whatfoeuer others haue they want, Deeibw., multi; becaufe they haue it not in poffeffion, and they want alto amnia, that which themfelues poffeffe, becaufe they haue it not in óuarodeelf vfe. In which refpe& they arc worfethenanybegger;for tam Pod wherasbut fome things are wanting to thefe,all,both which quamquænon they haue, and haue not, is wanting vntothem : neither is habet. Hieron. y in Prolog. Bi there in truth any pouertie alike wretched to this wilful! pe- blix. nurieofrichmifets , for they thirflin the middefl of the wa- Defuntinepia ters, and haue emptiebellies, whentheir garners and flore- multa, auaritia houles are full ofcorne : they are cold and haue not the heart omnia.Senec. them e id rou to garments, or hauing them to wears them : epit}. 108. P they are hungry,and yet dare not for feare of impairing their elate, feed vpon that food which is good and wholefome; Ambrof..de Na- fo that they wilfully take vpon them that punifhmentwhich butte. cap.4. thepoore fuffer through neceflìtie : for thcfe fall when they want meate, they when they haue it; the poore haue not money to vfe, the miferltath it, but will neither vfe it him - felfe, nor fuffer others; they dig gold out ofthe veines of the earth, and hide it therein againe; andifbutaneggebefet before them,they complaine ofloffe,becaufc a chicken is kil- led.