NO WANT WHERE THERE'S LITTLE.
by Robert Herrick
TO bread and water none is poor ;
And having these, what need of more ?
Though much from out the cess be spent,
Nature with little is content.
Cess, the parish assessment for church purposes.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 38.
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