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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 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.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 5. A certaine ancient philosopher did hereby insi∣nuate, how necessary a thing the administrati∣on of iustice was: and to be alwaies vigilant in the judicious di∣stribution of punishment, and recompence
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 12. An vprightly zealous, and truly devout man is strong enough against all temptations


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