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