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146.Better no prayer    than too big an offering,
By thy getting measure thy gift;
Better is none    than too big a sacrifice,
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So Thund of old wrote    ere man's race began,
Where he rose on high    when home he came.

147.The songs I know    that king's wives know not,
Nor men that are sons of men;
The first is called help,    and help it can bring thee
In sorrow and pain and sickness.

148.A second I know,    that men shall need
Who leechcraft long to use;
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