Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/Miser


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MISER.

A wretch there is, whose growing wealth
 But serves to make him poorer still;
And tho' his chests their thousands boast,
 They cannot once his belly fill.


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