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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 16. That the most of our contentment, while we are upon the earth, consisteth rather in Negatives, as not to be perplexed with ment all perturbations, outward diseases, and other such like life-tormen∣ting crosses, then in the reall fruition of any positive delight, that can befall vs


THere being no possibility, that men
Can here enjoy a greater delectation,
Then to possesse a body without paine,
And mind untroubled by the meanest passion:
Without desire of further pleasure, health,
And a good conscience should be our chiefe wealth.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
  2. 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
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome


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