Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 37. A counsell to one oppressed with bondage, and cruell disasters

VVHats'ever be your fortune, let your deeds
With your affection alwayes jump; for by
Desiring to doe that, which you must needs:
You'l blunt the sharpnesse of necessity:
And making of constraint a willingnesse,
Be glad in spight of crosses, and distresse.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue

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