Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 38. The truest wealth, man hath it from himselfe

IF you from discontents have a desire
To live exeem'd, the way is ne'r t'importune
Page  35 Your friends with suits: but alwaies to require
Your riches from your selfe: and not from fortune;
For your dislike, affection, and opinion
Are things still subject to your owne dominion.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome

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