Once poore, still penurious

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Once poore, still penurious
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.


(64.) Once poore, still penurious

Goes the world now, it will with thee goe 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 poore.