Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 33. Why our thoughts, all the while we are in this tran∣sitory world, from the houre of our nativity, to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave, should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction

SEeing the strait lodging of your mothers wombe,
Brought you to life, from whence you must depart
To the darke entry of a little tombe:
Betwixt your birth, and Buriall let your heart
Tread vertues narrow path: till you contract
To so strict bounds the pleasures of this wide,
Page  54 And spacious world, as that you may draw backe
The reines of covetous desire, hate, lust, and pride;
For by so doing, you will make your death
A blessed passage to eternall breath.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 33. That there is no true riches, but of necessary things
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches

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