Chapter XVII That he was ashamed to see any man poorer than himself Onceon a time, when he had met a certain needy man, taking note of
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Chapter XVII That he was ashamed to see any man poorer than himself Onceon a time, when he had met a certain needy man, taking note of
his poverty, he said unto his companion: “That man’s poverty doth
imply great shame unto us, and doth sorely rebuke our poverty, for the greatest shame is it to me whensoever I find one poorer than myself, seeing that I have chosen holy poverty for my Lady and for my spiritual and bodily riches, and this voice hath been bruited abroad throughout the world, to wit, that I have professed poverty before God and before men.”