Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse

MY flesh still having beene an enemy
Unto my spirit, it should glad my heart,
That paines, which seize now on my body, may
Be profitable to my better part;
For though Diseases seeme at first unpleasant,
They point us out the way, we ought to goe:
Admonish us exactly of our present
Estate: and t'us at last this favour shew,
That they enlarge us from that ruinous,
Close, and darke prison, which confined us.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome

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