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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
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 12. An vprightly zealous, and truly devout man is strong enough against all temptations
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 35. To a Gentleman, who was extreamly offen∣ded at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
- Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
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