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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 40. The duty of a husband to his wife


THough he be head, he must not tyrannize
Over his mate in sacred bonds of Mariage;
For in the head the wit, and judgement is:
And therefore he, with a judicious cariage,
Should towards her behave himselfe, respect her,
Instruct her, love her, and from harme protect her.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 33. Why our thoughts, all the while we are in this tran∣sitory world, from the houre of our nativity, to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave, should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction


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