Sentence:  Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares; / All having blown to sparks their noble fire, / And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire; / All trying by a love of <WSD>littleness</WSD> / To make abridgments, and to draw to less / Even that nothing which at first we were; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Smallness of spirit; pettiness.