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Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)


Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune


A Fly, which is a despicable creature
Obtaines, beside her wings, six feet from Nature:
Yet foure feet onely, she is pleas'd to grant
To the huge body of an Elephant:
So Fortune doth withdraw her gifts from some,
Whose real worth surpasseth theirs, on whom
She hath bestowed them, as forcibly,
As Elephants in strenth exceed a fly.



Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 17. VVhy we must all dye
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie


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