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 Third Booke. ¹ 37. The advantages of Povertie
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 18. Of the covetous, and perverse inclinati∣on of the greatest part of Man∣kind
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 44. Age meerly depending on the continuall Flux of time, we have very small reason to boast of a long life, already obtained: or be proud of the hope, hereafter to attaine un∣to it
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty

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