Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the per∣fectioning of the very same qualitie, wee are proudest of

FOnd selfe-conceit likes never to permit
Ones mind, to see it selfe with upright eyes;
Whence many men might have attain'd to wit,
Had they not thought themselves already wise:
To boast of wisedome then, is foolishnesse;
For while we thinke, we're wise: we're nothing lesse.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 36. Of Death, and Sin
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions

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