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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 42. An encouragement to those of meane Parentage, not to be hindered by the Obscurity of their ex∣traction, from the undertaking of glo∣rious enterprises
THe baser, that your Parents are, the greater
Renowne, and honour will to you redound;
Jf all your actions be on vertue grounded:
To give being more, then to receive, and better
To have a noble life, then birth: to found
A new Nobility, then find it founded.
Thomas Urquhart
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- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
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