Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
WHos'ever by sinister meanes is come
To places of preferment, and to walke
Within the bounds of vertue takes no plea∣sure:
Provideth onely titles for his tombe,
And for the baser people pratling talke:
But nothing for himselfe in any measure;
For fortune doth with all things us befit,
Save the sole mind of ours: and Vice kils it.
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 Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
- 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 Second Booke. № 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
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