Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men

THey're richer, who diminish their desires:
Though their possessions be not amplified,
Then Monarchs: who in owning large Empires,
Have minds, that never will be satisfied;
For he is poore, that wants what he would have:
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

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