Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye

IT being the law of Nations to restore
What we have borrow'd, ther's no remedy:
But being engaged to a Creditor,
Who will not lose his debt: we must needs dye:
Nor can we plead one halfe a termes delay;
For when Death craves it, we are forc'd to pay.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the per∣fectioning of the very same qualitie, wee are proudest of
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world

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