Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 4. How to become wise

Who would be truly wise, must in all haste 
	His mind of perturbations dispossesse; 
For wisedome is a large, and spatious guhest: 
	And can not dwell, but in an empty place, 
Therefore to harbour her, we must not grudge, 
To make both vice, and passion to dislodge.

Эпиграммы. Книга I. № 4. Как обретают мудрость

Запомни, приглашая мудрость в дом:
	Она собой заполнит всё пространство,
В котором жить вы будете вдвоём,
	А всё, что нарушает постоянство,
То бишь измены, страсти и порок,
Ты выставишь немедля за порог!

© Перевод Евг. Фельдмана
13-15.02.2020
Все переводы Евгения Фельдмана

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all

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