Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men

AS is the Tortoise used by the Eagle:
So fortune doth vaine-glorious men inveagle;
Who carries them upon the wings of honour
The higher up, that they may breake the sooner.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 10. That a contented man is rich, how litle wealth soever he have

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