Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man

SEeing Nature entred me on this condition
Jnto the world, that J must leav't, I vow,
A noble death shall be my chiefe ambition;
To dye being th'end of all J ought to doe:
And rather gaine, by a prime vertue, death:
Then to protract with common ones my breath.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye

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