Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By George Herbert (1593–1633)From “The Church Porch”: Wealth
| BE thrifty, but not covetous: therefore give | |
| Thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due. | |
| Never was scraper brave man. Get to live; | |
| Then live and use it: else it is not true | |
| That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone | 5 |
| Makes money not a contemptible stone. | |
| What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold | |
| About thy neck do drown thee? raise thy head. | |
| Take stars for money: stars not to be told | |
| By any art, yet to be purchased. | 10 |
| None is so wasteful as the scraping dame. | |
| She loseth three for one; her soul, rest, fame. | |