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said the Blessed Francis, I will go unto the Great and the Wise, and ask them, for they know the Ways of the Lord and the Judgments of God. But these only answered him yet more roughly, saying: What is this new doctrine which thou bringest to our ears? May that Poverty which thou seekest always abide with thee, and with thy children, and with thy seed after thee. As for us, we had rather enjoy the delights of life and abound in riches, for the span of our Life is short and tedious, and