Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660?)
Scottish writer, poet, translator

Poems by Thomas Urquhart

• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 1. To the King
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 2. That those of a solid wit, cannot be puffed vp with applause; nor incensed by contumelie
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 3. A brave spirit disdaineth the threats of Fortune
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 4. How to become wise
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 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 First Booke. ¹ 6. That the fellowship of vertuous, or vicious people, contributes much to the bettering, or depraving of the mind
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 7. Riches without further, can make no man happy
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 8. What man it is, that is truly wealthie
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 9. How a valiant man ought to behave himselfe towards those, that basely offer to offend him
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 10. Why the world is at variance
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 11. How to be alwayes in repose
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 12. A wise man onely may properly be said to enjoy life
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 13. Who is not satisfied with his owne fortune, how great soever it be, is miserable
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 14. A certaine old mans expression before his death, to his Son
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 15. To one of a great memory, but depraved life
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 16. How a man should oppose adversitie
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 20. Of Negative, and Positive good
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 21. To one bewailing the death of another
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 27. Of Lust, and Anger
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 29. The firme, and determinate resolution of a couragious spirit, in the deepest calamities, inflicted by sinister fate
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 31. To a rich man, become poore
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 34. That wee ought not to be excessively grieved at the losse of any thing, that is in the power of Fortune
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 37. A counsell to one oppressed with bondage, and cruell disasters
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 38. How Fortune oftentimes most praeposterously pond'ring the aections of men, with a great deale of injustice bestoweth her favours
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 39. When a true friend may be best knowne
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 40. The duty of a husband to his wife
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
• 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
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 43. In how farre men are inferiour to many other living creatures, in the faculties of the exteriour senses
• Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 44. To one, who was heavily cast downe in Spirit, by rea∣son of some scandalous speeches, blased forth to his disadvantage
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 1. No crosse adventure should hinder vs from being good; though we be frustrate of the reward thereof
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 5. That a vertuous mind in a deformed body maketh one more beautifull, then a handsome body can doe, endowed with a vicious mind
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 8. What sort of benefits one ought to bestow
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 9. To one, who did glory too much in the faire, and durable fabrick of a gorgious Palace, which he had caused lately to be built
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 10. That a contented man is rich, how litle wealth soever he have
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 11. How dangerous it is, to write, or speake of moderne times
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 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 Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 14. That a truly generous mind, had rather give a curtesie, then be resting one, after the presented opportunity to repay it
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 15. To a certain lady of a most exquisit feature, and comely presentation: but who gloried too much in the deceitfull excellencie of these fading, and perishable qualities
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 16. Who is truly rich, and who poore
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 17. How generous a thing it is, not to succumbe to pleasure, and sensualitie
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 21. Death maketh us all alike in so farre, as her power can reach
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 26. Consolation to a poore man
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 27. The bad returnes of ingrate men should not deterre us from being liberall
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 28. That riches is a sicknesse to those, that doe not possesse the good thereof, so much as they are possest thereby
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 30. That the setled quiet of our mind ought not to be moved at sinister accidents
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 32. Our inclination is so depraved, that it is apt enough of it selfe to runne to sin, with∣out any instigation, whereby to drive it forward
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 33. That there is no true riches, but of necessary things
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 35. How deplorable the condition of most men is, who, though they attaine to the fruition of their praete∣rit projects, by covering neverthelesse the possession of future pleasures, honours, and commodities, never receive con∣tentment (is they ought) in the present time
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 37. To a generously disposed Gentleman, who was maine sorrie, that he had not wherewith to remunerat the favours, by the which he was obliged to the curtesie of a friend
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 38. The truest wealth, man hath it from himselfe
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 39. That the impudicity of a Lascivious Woman staines but her owne, and not her hus∣bands honour
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 40. Who really are rich, and who poore
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 41. How to oppose sinister fate.
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men
• Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 2. That no man, to speake properly, liveth, but he, that is Wise, and vertuous
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 4. That Lust, and drunkennesse are odious vices
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 5. A certaine ancient philosopher did hereby insi∣nuate, how necessary a thing the administrati∣on of iustice was: and to be alwaies vigilant in the judicious di∣stribution of punishment, and recompence
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the per∣fectioning of the very same qualitie, wee are proudest of
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 11. That those employ not their occasions well, who spend the most part of their life in providing for the Instruments of living
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 12. An vprightly zealous, and truly devout man is strong enough against all temptations
• 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
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 14. The Generous speech of a Noble Cavallier, after he had disarmed his adversary at the single Combate
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 15. To one, who was excessively cheerefull, for being recovered of a Fever, wherewith he had beene for a time extreame sorely sha∣ken
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 16. That the most of our contentment, while we are upon the earth, consisteth rather in Negatives, as not to be perplexed with ment all perturbations, outward diseases, and other such like life-tormen∣ting crosses, then in the reall fruition of any positive delight, that can befall vs
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 18. Of the covetous, and perverse inclinati∣on of the greatest part of Man∣kind
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 20. How we should enjoy the delights, we have: and contemne such, as we have not
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 24. A consolation to those, that are of a little stature not to be sorry thereat
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 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
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 31. A temperate Dyet, is the best Physicke
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 32. That all our life, is but a continuall course, and vicissitude of sinning, and being sorry for sinne
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 33. Why our thoughts, all the while we are in this tran∣sitory world, from the houre of our nativity, to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave, should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 34. It is the safest course to entertaine poverty in our greatest riches
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 35. To a Gentleman, who was extreamly offen∣ded at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 36. Of Death, and Sin
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 37. The advantages of Povertie
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 38. How to make all the world peaceable
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 39. One, who did extreamly regret, his bestowing of a great benefit vpon an ingrate man
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 41. To one, who was grieved within himselfe, that he was not endewed with such force, and vi∣gour of body, as many others were
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 42. An encouragement to those of meane Parentage, not to be hindered by the Obscurity of their ex∣traction, from the undertaking of glo∣rious enterprises
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 43. We should not be troubled at the accidents of Fortune nor those things, which cannot be eschewed
• Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 44. Age meerly depending on the continuall Flux of time, we have very small reason to boast of a long life, already obtained: or be proud of the hope, hereafter to attaine un∣to it

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