Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits

VErtue, not blood was thought of anciently;
Yet blood, more then our vertue ought to please us:
For we on blood, not vertue should rely;
Not on our vertue: but the blood of Iesus,
His blood being able to make heavenly Kings;
Of men, plagu'd here for lacke of Earthly things.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
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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