Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life

THat life is short, which measur'd by the span
Of time hath been of vertuous actions scant:
And one day's longer in a learned man,
Then twenty Lusters of an ignorant;
For life is good, and 'tis the quality
Of goodnesse, that extends its quantity.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them

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