Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches

IF men deservedly speake ill of you,
Be angry not at them: but at the cause,
Which you to them did furnish so to doe:
But if they still continue 'gainst the Lawes.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the per∣fectioning of the very same qualitie, wee are proudest of
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 42. The speech of a noble spirit to his adversary, whom af∣ter he had defeated, he acknowledgeth to be nothing in∣feriour to himselfe in worth, wit, or valour, thereby insinuating that a wise man cannot properly bee subdued: though he be orthrown in body, and worldly commodities

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