Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 9. How a valiant man ought to behave himselfe towards those, that basely offer to offend him

HEE is beyond the reach of common men,
Who can despise an injury; for as
The billowes of the Sea insult in vaine,
Against a Rocke: a stout breast finds no cause,
Of being commov'd at wrongs, whereof the Dart,
Resiles from him, as from a brasen Wall,
On the offender, while his mighty heart,
And noble mind, far more sublime, then all
The Regions of the Ayre, most bravely scorne
Th'inferiour dangers of a boystrous storme.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 32. That all our life, is but a continuall course, and vicissitude of sinning, and being sorry for sinne
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 21. Death maketh us all alike in so farre, as her power can reach

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