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14 "Poor, who had plenty once, When gifts fell thick as rain: But they give us nought, for the nonce, And how should we give again?"

Then the beggar, "See your sins! Of old, unless I err, Ye had brothers for inmates, twins, and ."

"While was in good case flourished too: For 's lenten face, No wonder if  rue."

"Would ye retrieve the one? Try and make plump the other! When 's penance is done, joins his brother."