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Woe to the worldly man, whose covetous Ambition labours to join house to house; Lay field to field, till the enclosures edge The plain, girdling a country with one hedge: They leave no place unbought; no piece of earth Which they will not engross; making a dearth Of all inhabitants; until they stand Unneighboured as unblest within the land.
Woe to the worldly man, whose covetous Ambition labours to join house to house; Lay field to field, till the enclosures edge The plain, girdling a country with one hedge: They leave no place unbought; no piece of earth Which they will not engross; making a dearth Of all inhabitants; until they stand Unneighboured as unblest within the land.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop King (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 44 · printed citation: Bishop King · subject: AVARICE
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