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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 30. That nothing more opposeth the tranquillity of life, which is proper, and peculiar to Wise-men, then to be tyed to a generality of publicke example in all our actions
AMongst the causes of our evils, this
Is one of the most ordinary, that
We live b'example: things which are amisse
Supplying oftentimes the place of what
Is rightest, and most vertuous: for there's no man
(Scarce) holds that error, which is done in comon.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
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