Chapter

 1 Prol|         says: "What shall I, so poor in talent, say of thee,
 2 Prol| ungrateful. And certainly, that poor widow who made an offering
 3 Prol|          Hence it is that I, so poor in talent, and equally devoid
 4 Prol|        to so great a Queen this poor script of mine, that in
 5 Prol|     gift offered to thee by thy poor lover! For with this puny
 6 IV  |      manger" (Luke II, 16.) The poor shepherds found the poor
 7 IV  |        poor shepherds found the poor Mother, Mary, and the poor
 8 IV  |      poor Mother, Mary, and the poor Infant in the poor spot,
 9 IV  |      and the poor Infant in the poor spot, not in splendid pomp,
10 IV  |         splendid pomp, but in a poor manger. But if the Mother
11 IV  |         the Mother had not been poor, she would indeed have found
12 IV  |         of Mary, and whoever is poor, may receive thence great
13 IV  |      Most certainly, whoever is poor willingly and freely for
14 IV  |       for God's sake, or who is poor of necessity, yet patiently,
15 IV  |   despair, because not only the poor shepherds, but also the
16 IV  |       the rich kings, found the poor Mary and her poor Son, as
17 IV  |     found the poor Mary and her poor Son, as it is said in St.
18 IV  |      who had brought gifts. The poor find this consolation by
19 IV  |        by liberality. While the poor are conformed to Christ
20 VIII|  wealthy Lady, be to us who are poor a benefactress ! O most
21 XVII|      this fruit, by helping the poor, that he may be as the fruit-bearing