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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all


THat aged man, we should (without all doubt)
Of all men else the most disgracefull hold:
Who can produce no testimony, but
The number of his yeares, that he is old;
For of such men what can bee testifyed,
But that being borne, they lived long, then dyed.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 32. That all our life, is but a continuall course, and vicissitude of sinning, and being sorry for sinne
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
  5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities


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