Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome

Who vertuously would settle his endeavours,
To mortifie his passions, and be wise:
Must still remember on received favours,
Forgetting alwaies by-past injuries;
For that a friend should prove ingrate, is strange:
And mercy is more Noble, then revenge.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

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