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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


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


IF by the necessary use of things,
The ornaments wee measure of our honour,
And not by that, which fancy doth suggest us:
Wee will not need those wares, the Marchant brings
From forraine Countries: and withall exoner
Our minds of what might otherwise molest us.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting


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