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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 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.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
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- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse
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