Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 36. Of Death, and Sin

Bodies, which lack the soules, did them inform,
Turn'd to corruption, lose their former grace:
And out of hearts corrupted breeds a worme
Still gnawing upon guilty Consciences.
As from deceased bodies, Death withdrawes
The living soules, another life t'enjoy:
So sinne, contrary to the divine Lawes,
In living bodies doth the soule destroy.
Death is not vanquish'd till the Resurrection
Of bodies, testifie the soules conjunction
And by Regeneration, sin's infection
Is buri'd in a mortifi'd compunction;
Lesse then is death, then sinne: the tomb, then hell:
The more that soules the bodies doe excell.

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 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye

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