Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits

VErtue, not blood was thought of anciently;
Yet blood, more then our vertue ought to please us:
For we on blood, not vertue should rely;
Not on our vertue: but the blood of Iesus,
His blood being able to make heavenly Kings;
Of men, plagu'd here for lacke of Earthly things.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth

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