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

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