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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:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 5. The wise, and noble resolution of a truly couragious, and devout spirit, towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections, and inward perturbations, which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes: and oppose his already ini∣tiated progresse, in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous, and holy life
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 12. That the most solid gaine of any, is in the action of ver∣tue, all other emoluments, how lucrative they so ever appeare to the covetous mind, being the chiefest precipitating pushes of humane frailty to an inevitable losse
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
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