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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 35. To a Gentleman, who was extreamly offen∣ded at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor


AT his reproachfull words doe not conceive
The meanest grudge; for curs will still be barking
Page  55 Nor take you notice of him, seeing a knave
Is like a scabbed sheepe, not worth the marking;
And this your setting him at nought will make him
Swell, as a Toad, till his owne poyson breake him.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth


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