Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
LEt never want of money vexe your braine;
Seeing all contentment is in th'only mind,
To the which mony doth no more pertaine,
Then to the Hierarchies of Angel-kind:
Thus Gold being Earthly, and the mind sublime:
T'abase your spirit, is a sort of crime.
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 17. VVhy we must all dye
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting
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