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No Want Where There's Little.
By Robert Herrick
To bread and water none is poor;
And having these, what need of more?
Though much from out the cess be spent,
Nature with little is content.
Extra Info:
Cess, the parish assessment for church purposes.
To bread and water none is poor. Seneca, Excerpt. ii. 887: Panem et aquam Natura desiderat; nemo ad haec pauper est.
Nature with little is content. Seneca, Ep. xvi.: Exiguum Natura desiderat. Ep. lx.: parvo Natura dimittitur.
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