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THAT TIMES OF PEACE ARE UNPROPITIOUS TO POVERTY

But alas! after a while Peace was made, a Peace more hurtful than any War. In the beginning of that long Peace but few were sealed, in the middle of it yet fewer, at the end fewer still. And behold! of a surety in this Peace is my Bitterness