Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 7. Riches without further, can make no man happy

AS he, whose body is not well in health,
To search for ease, from bed to bed will rise:
So to a mind, that is diseased, wealth
Is not the end: but change of miseries;
And that, which made his poverty to vexe him,
Will make his riches likewise to perplexe him.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 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
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 35. Wherein true Wealth consists

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