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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 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.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 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
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
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