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 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 41. To one, who was grieved within himselfe, that he was not endewed with such force, and vi∣gour of body, as many others were
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods

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