OF THE GOOD.
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practised, gold and silver would be reckoned as nothing. (43)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, Tiberius is any man who in poverty is humble and virtuous, but raised to affluence forgets every honest feeling. The artificer is any poor man who presents the rich with unacceptable gifts.
TALE XLV.
OF THE GOOD, WHO ALONE WILL ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
There was a wise and rich king who possessed a beloved, but not a loving wife. She had three illegitimate sons who proved ungrateful
