But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor. - John Denham

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But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor.

John Denham

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About John Denham

Sir John Denham (1614 or 1615 – 10 March 1669) was a Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. Son of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, he was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn in London.

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Alternative Names: Worthy and learned Gent., • Sir John Denham

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Variety, which all the rest endears.

Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.