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Mineral Things
That is, what is dug out of and found in the earth


How many precious stones, how many metals, large and small,
are found deep in the earth! They must be sought with zeal.

Many important things you can have through your art and charity,
if you desire to know well their kind birth, quality, and gender.

Yet without work, labor, and pain nothing is dug nor found.
Thus you cannot without work count such fine riches.