The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Appendix of Epigrams/Once Poor, Still Penurious

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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard

Appendix of Epigrams
Once Poor, Still Penurious

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Once Poor, Still Penurious1898Alfred Pollard

64. ONCE POOR, STILL PENURIOUS.

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.