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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth


LEt none be proud of life: nor thinke, that longer
He then another will, because he's younger,
Enjoy his pleasures; for though old age stand
A great way off, death alwaies is at hand;
Who (without taking heed to time, or yeares)
No Living creature spares, when she appeares.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them


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