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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 4. That Lust, and drunkennesse are odious vices


Wrath makes a man to sin couragiously,
And pride doth swell with faire appearances:
Page  41 But drunkenesse, and too much Leacherie
Are sloven, filthie, villanous, and base;
For by the one Gods image being exil'd,
His Temple by the other is defil'd.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
  3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions


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