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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
AS singing Grashoppers, a fond Youth revels
In Summer blinks: & starves when tempests rage:
But wise men (Pismire like) enjoy the travels
Of their young yeares, in th'winter of their age:
These by their Providence have wealth in treasure:
While those are pained for their by-gone pleasure.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
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