Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue

HOw can such wedded people lead their lives,
With a respect unfainedly entire,
Where husbands are not married to their wives:
But money to the covetous desire:
Where men in little estimation hold
Womens discretion, wit, and chastitie:
But meerely aime at handsomnesse, and gold,
To serve their avarice, and Leacherie:
Which fashion lately is become so common,
That first, w'espouse the money: then, the woman.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
4. 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
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 17. VVhy we must all dye

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