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Once Poor, Still Penurious.
By Robert Herrick
Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard:
The fattest hogs we grease the more with lard.
To him that has, there shall be added more;
Who is penurious, he shall still be poor.
Extra Info:
To him that has, etc. The quotation is not from the Bible, but from Martial, v. 81:--
"Semper pauper eris, si pauper es, Aemiliane.
Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus."
Cp. also Davison's Poet. Rhap., i. 95. Ed. Bullen.
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