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Shakespeare Jest-Books: A Hundred Mery Talys

by W. Carew Hazlitt

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¶ Of the Poure Man, Into Whose House Theues Brake by Nyghte. LXXXIII270

¶ There was a poore man on a tyme, the whiche vnto theues, that brake into his house on nyght, he sayde on this wyse: syrs, I maruayle, that ye thynke to fynde any thyng here by nyght: for I ensure you I can fynd nothing, whan it is brode day.

By this tale appereth playnly
That pouerte is a welthy mysery.

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