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My principall subiect pluckes me by the elbowe, Diamante Castaldos the magnificos wife, after my enlargment proued to bee with childe, at which instant there grewe an vnsatiable famine in Venice, wherein, whether it were for meere niggardise, or that Castaldo still eate out his heart with iealousie, Saint Anne be our recorde, he turnde vp the heeles verie deuoutly.
Show my niggard who by niggardise e'er rose to high degree, * Or the generous gifts generally hath slain." And he pursued, "Know, O Steward, it is my desire that so long as thou hast money enough for my breakfast, thou trouble me not with taking thought about my supper." Thereupon the Steward asked, "Must it be so?"; and he answered, "It must."
'When the World heaps favours on thee, pass on * Thy favours to friends ere her hand she stay: Largesse never let her when fain she comes, * Nor niggardise kept her from turning away! When I heard these verses I held my peace and cared not to exchange a word with thee."
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