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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:
  1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 42. The speech of a noble spirit to his adversary, whom af∣ter he had defeated, he acknowledgeth to be nothing in∣feriour to himselfe in worth, wit, or valour, thereby insinuating that a wise man cannot properly bee subdued: though he be orthrown in body, and worldly commodities
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome


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