Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men

AS is the Tortoise used by the Eagle:
So fortune doth vaine-glorious men inveagle;
Who carries them upon the wings of honour
The higher up, that they may breake the sooner.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse

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