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

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.

A second I know, that men shall need Who leechcraft long to use; -lacuna- -lacuna-