Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie

DOe nothing tim'rously, and yet b'aware,
You be not rash: let prudence therefore guard
Your words, and deeds; for he needs not to feare
What's to be shun'd, that shuns what's to be fear'd;
Nor in the present time be vex't, who from
Things past, discerne of what is like to come.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
2. 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
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth

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