The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/No Want Where There's Little

100. NO WANT WHERE THERE'S LITTLE.

To bread and water none is poor;
And having these, what need of more?
Though much from out the cess be spent,
Nature with little is content.

Cess, the parish assessment for church purposes.

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