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 Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 12. That the most solid gaine of any, is in the action of ver∣tue, all other emoluments, how lucrative they so ever appeare to the covetous mind, being the chiefest precipitating pushes of humane frailty to an inevitable losse
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
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