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one moment’s tranquil sleep, can money buy them?What veritable dross then is money! Money-makeras he had been in his youth and manhood—even to upwards of fifty, and consequently enor-mously rich, and crescit amor numrni quanto ipsapecunia crescit , he showed himself generous andsplendid, the very reverse of avaricious, from themoment made grand master ; as careful of theorder’s interests and privileges, as before neglectfulof them; and parsimonious as to its treasury, wasmost liberal of his own ; and his splendour andgenerosity always went on increasing to his lastbreath, and ^he ended by becoming remarkable forsomething not unlike prodigality! And so it iswithout the least wonder, as to the brightest-minded ; because the longer they exist, the clearerthey discern the petty value to be put on humanwealth—what a trifling portion of happiness it canpurchase, if any; how shallow, fleeting, utterly in-significant, are what the purse-proud term riches!But finding the majority of his order in favour ofUrban VI. as legitimately Pope, however person-ally tyrannical and finally odious . 1 The great

1 "Very ferocious; accused of having- had five of the suspectedcardinals tied up in as many sacks, and thrown into the sea duringhis voyage from Naples to Genoa. — Bosio : par. ii. lib. iv,anno 1384.