But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.