Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 13. That to employ our thoughts on the study of morta∣lity, and frailty of our nature, is a very necessary, and profitable speculation

BE not from death (by any meanes) a stranger:
But make her your familiar friend; that if
Page  45 The cause require, it, vilipending danger,
You may step forth t'embrace her, without griefe;
For the more boldly you intend to meet her:
The relish of your life will prove the sweeter.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions

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