Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher

WHy doe you study Morals, if you take
No paines t'abate your avarice, and lust?
For how can vertues definition make
You valiant, prudent, temperate, or just:
Jf you industriously purge not your mind
Of any vice, to which you are inclin'd?

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 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

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