Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 12. That the most solid gaine of any, is in the action of ver∣tue, all other emoluments, how lucrative they so ever appeare to the covetous mind, being the chiefest precipitating pushes of humane frailty to an inevitable losse

SUch is the thin, and ragged maske of vice,
That whosoe'r to peevish thoughts are pronest,
Will know some time b'experience, that there is
No profitable thing, which is not honest:
Nor can there be to God a man more odious,
Then he who leaves the good, for what's cōmodious.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 42. The speech of a noble spirit to his adversary, whom af∣ter he had defeated, he acknowledgeth to be nothing in∣feriour to himselfe in worth, wit, or valour, thereby insinuating that a wise man cannot properly bee subdued: though he be orthrown in body, and worldly commodities
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie

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