Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it

TO want, what J should have, shall never make
My heart lesse cheerfull; reason still requiring,
Page  51 That J be pleas'd, whats' ever things J lacke,
To furnish to my selfe, by not desiring;
For not to wish for things, against the griefe
Of feare, and frustrate hopes provides reliefe.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all
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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