The poor mans tears opened in a sermon / preached by Henry SmithThe poore mans teares opened in a sermon / preached by Henrie Smith

If the proud would leave their superfluity in apparel, their excess in embroidery, their vanity in cuts, guards and pounces, their excess in spangling their fantastical feathers and needless bravery, the greater part would suffice towards the relief of the poor, and yet have sufficient to suffice nature.

If the proud would leaue their superfluitie in apparell, their excesse in imbrodery, their vanitie in cuttes, gardes and pownees, their excesse in spangling their fantasticall feathers and needlesse brauerie, the greater part woulde suffice towardes the reliefe of the poore, and yet haue sufficient to suffise nature.

Let the glutton seek only to suffice nature and leave his daily surfeiting in belly cheer, then might the poor be fed with that which he oftentimes either loathsomely vomits forth, or worketh as an instrument to shorten his own life. Let the whoremonger leave off his dalliance, and his inordinate expenses for maintaining of his wickedness; and it shall be good for his body, and better for his soul, yea his purse shall be the ⟨p. 35⟩heavier, and he thereby better able to relieve the poor.

Let the glutton seeke onely to suffice nature and leaue his dayly surfetting in belly cheere, then might the poore be fed with that which he oftentimes either lothsomely vomites forth, or worketh as an instrument to shorten his owne life. Let the whormonger leaue off his dalliance, and his inordinate expences for maintaining of his wickednesse; and it shall be good for his bodie, and better for his soule, yea his purse shall bee the ⟨p. 35⟩heauier, and he thereby better able to relieue the poore.