Silent and wakeful many a time was he Discovered by his nurse upon the ground, As if he would have said, ‘For this I came.’ O thou his father, Felix verily! 1502 O thou his mother, verily Joanna, If this, interpreted, means as is said! Not for the world which people toil for now In following Ostiense and Taddeo, 1503 But through his longing after the true manna, He in short time became so great a teacher, That he began to go about the vineyard, Which fadeth soon, if faithless be the dresser; And of the See, (that once was more benignant 1504 Unto the righteous poor, not through itself, But him who sits there and degenerates,) 1505 Not to dispense or two or three for six, 1506 Not any fortune of first vacancy, Non decimas quae sunt pauperum Dei, He asked for, but against the errant world
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