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 1     I|          to give us life, to take poverty and to give us glory. S.
 2     I|           gold for to relieve her poverty, incense against the stench
 3     I|         the saints. First for our poverty and for the glory of saints,
 4     I|           first reason is for our poverty, and for our misery, or
 5     I|         to grow in the land of my poverty. ~Then passed the seven
 6    II|           thou hast sent him, our poverty sufficeth enough to us that
 7    II|           a nobleman: but for the poverty of them together, they were
 8    II|           so had aided him in his poverty. And after a few days Nicholas
 9    II|       were in diverse prisons, in poverty and foul clothing, and she
10    II|          that is to say he gat by poverty the kingdom, with sorrow
11    II|         to his sons dust upon the poverty of his hoar head and cried:
12   III|          so departed and died for poverty, of whom should God demand
13   III|            and by patience is had poverty. It is said, Job, primo
14   III|       sore and praised little his poverty, which he had long suffered
15   III|           darest thou compare thy poverty to the riches of S. Gregory
16   III|       doubt ne of abundance ne of poverty.~It happed on a time that
17   III|           saw himself in so great poverty, he called the devils and
18   III|       such as were in right great poverty and misery, that as was
19   III|            and took on him wilful poverty for the love of Jesu Christ,
20    IV|         life, and he desired more poverty than riches, and travail
21    IV|          a man that for the great poverty that he suffered was joined
22    IV|           to bring him out of his poverty. And this did he for to
23    IV|    humility, to possess voluntary poverty; and exhorted as much as
24    IV|           poor men would help his poverty, and the beam grew so suddenly
25    IV|            and came to so great a poverty that he which had been accustomed
26     V|           was there long in great poverty, which oft made his pottage
27     V|        precious and showed little poverty of the brethren, and the
28     V|        poor, and for his overmuch poverty he was in despair, and entered
29     V|           art now, and thy rather poverty, and thy riches now, and
30     V|            which was for to be in poverty, and that they should go
31     V|       from door to door.~He loved poverty in himself and in all others,
32     V|          so that he always called poverty his lady, but when he saw
33     V|          his fellow and said: The poverty of this woman doth to us
34     V|        and reproveth strongly our poverty, for, for my riches I have
35     V|      riches I have chosen my lady poverty, and she shineth more in
36     V|           manner: Welcome my lady poverty, and anon they vanished
37     V|           our Lord that which the poverty of the desert might not
38     V|         collation was made of the poverty of the Blessed Virgin our
39     V|       they came unto the utterest poverty. And they that were her
40    VI|      which David had, largesse in poverty, which Tobit showed, and
41    VI|          was in great despair for poverty. And the devil appeared
42    VI|      Seventhly, how S. Clare kept poverty; it is read that for to
43    VI|         for to keep and to follow poverty after the gospel of Jesu
44    VI|         of the pope of the vow of poverty, and thereupon had received
45    VI|           my sins, but the vow of poverty I shall keep unto the death.
46    VI|           the state of right holy poverty it pleased to our Lord to
47    VI|        much that her privilege of poverty might be confirmed of the
48    VI|        with all her heart in very poverty. Her members were bruised
49    VI|         recommend to you the holy poverty of our Lord, and give ye
50    VI|          the world for to live in poverty.~
51    VI|        his penance by right great poverty in the said city and led
52    VI|           the estate of sovereign poverty, to the end that the world
53    VI|       shall come to the estate of poverty. And though she did abstinence,
54    VI|        clear and that she had the poverty that she long desired, she
55    VI|        performed. She took wilful poverty, and her clothing was coarse
56    VI|         was come to the estate of poverty, he sent an earl to her
57    VI|         when she had been in much poverty she received five hundred
58    VI|    complained to him of her great poverty and prayed him for the love
59   VII|           Almighty God, and loved poverty, and was full of meekness
60   VII|   delivered from all shame, great poverty, and false slander, and
61   VII| discretion, be works of the soul, poverty, tribulation and discretion
62   VII|        age, ne of sickness, ne of poverty, ne of no thing that may
63   VII|          his own mother, iii. 57.~Poverty, beloved of S. Francis,