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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 15. To one of a great memory, but depraved life
Though many things your memory containe:
If by your mind, to matters it be led,
Which are lesse profitable to retaine,
Then to commit t’oblivion, it is bad:
And whatsoever arts it comprehend:
If it remember not on piety:
Repentance for enormous sins: the end
Of life, Gods judgements, and his clemencie;
Those necessary precepts while you lake,
You but forget your selfe: and it is weake.
Thomas Urquhart
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