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AS riches, so likewise poverty is thy gift, o Lord.¹ And as thou hast made some rich to dispose the worldly goods: so haste thou appointed some to be poor that they might receive thy benefits at the rich mens hands. And as the godly rich are well-beloved of thee,² •o in like manner are y• pore, if they bear the cross of poverty patiently and thankfully.³ For good and evil, life and death, poverty and riches are of thee, O Lord. We therefore most humbly pray thee, to give a good spirit, to all such as it hath pleased y• to burden with the yoke of poverty, that they may with apacie nt and thankful heart walk in their state ⟨image 49⟩like unto that poor Lazar, of whom we read in the gospel of thy well-beloved son, which chose rather patiently, and godly to die, than unjustly or by force to get any mans goods, and by no means envy, murmur, or grudge against such as it hath pleased the to endue with more abundance of worldly substance, but knowing their state, although never so hum ble and base to be of the their lord God, and that thou wilt not forsake them in this their need, but send them things necessary for their pore life, may continually praise thee, and hope for better thin ges in the world to come, through thy son Jesus Christ our lord. AMEN.