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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The First Booke. № 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
WHose mind with pride, and avarice doth flow,
Remember seldome of a courtesie,
So well, as humbler spirits doe; for who
Lean's most on hope, yeelds least to memory:
Their thoughts so farre on future aimes being set,
That by-past things they purposely forget.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 5. A certaine ancient philosopher did hereby insi∣nuate, how necessary a thing the administrati∣on of iustice was: and to be alwaies vigilant in the judicious di∣stribution of punishment, and recompence
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 32. That all our life, is but a continuall course, and vicissitude of sinning, and being sorry for sinne
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