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 * Nor let thy Avarice tempt thee to withdraw

The Priest's appointed Share; with cheerful Heart The tenth of thy Increase bestow, and own Heav'n's bounteous Goodness, that will sure repay Thy grateful Duty: This neglected, fear Signal Avengeance, such as over-took A Miser, that unjustly once with-held The Clergy's Due; relying on himself, His Fields he tended with successless Care, Early, and late, when, or unwish't for Rain Descended, or unseasonable Frosts Curb'd his increasing Hopes, or when around The Clouds dropt Fatness, in the middle Sky The Dew suspended staid, and left unmoist His execrable Glebe; recording this, Be Just, and Wise, and tremble to transgress. Rh