Social Commentaries
The prayse of Poverty
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
If smallest thread the choycest cloath doth yeild,
If finest herbage make the daintiest field:
Then slender poverty, wrought with so small
And thin a fortune, must be best of all.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “The prayse of Poverty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/155/.
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