Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660?)

The Rating of Thomas Urquhart's Poems

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 11. How dangerous it is, to write, or speake of moderne times
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 38. How to make all the world peaceable
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 3. A brave spirit disdaineth the threats of Fortune
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 16. Who is truly rich, and who poore
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 14. The Generous speech of a Noble Cavallier, after he had disarmed his adversary at the single Combate
6. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 43. We should not be troubled at the accidents of Fortune nor those things, which cannot be eschewed
7. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 14. A certaine old mans expression before his death, to his Son
8. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 1. To the King
9. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 31. A temperate Dyet, is the best Physicke
10. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 2. That those of a solid wit, cannot be puffed vp with applause; nor incensed by contumelie
11. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 8. What man it is, that is truly wealthie
12. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 21. To one bewailing the death of another
13. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 10. Why the world is at variance
14. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 11. How to be alwayes in repose
15. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 13. Who is not satisfied with his owne fortune, how great soever it be, is miserable
16. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 6. That the fellowship of vertuous, or vicious people, contributes much to the bettering, or depraving of the mind
17. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 9. How a valiant man ought to behave himselfe towards those, that basely offer to offend him
18. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 4. How to become wise
19. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 15. To one of a great memory, but depraved life
20. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 7. Riches without further, can make no man happy
21. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 12. A wise man onely may properly be said to enjoy life
22. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 18. Of the covetous, and perverse inclinati∣on of the greatest part of Man∣kind
23. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 17. How generous a thing it is, not to succumbe to pleasure, and sensualitie
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
30. 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
31. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 40. Who really are rich, and who poore
32. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
33. 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
34. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune
35. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 34. It is the safest course to entertaine poverty in our greatest riches
36. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
37. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 4. That Lust, and drunkennesse are odious vices
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 36. Of Death, and Sin
43. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 24. A consolation to those, that are of a little stature not to be sorry thereat
44. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 8. What sort of benefits one ought to bestow
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 20. Of Negative, and Positive good
50. 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
51. 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
52. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
53. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 39. One, who did extreamly regret, his bestowing of a great benefit vpon an ingrate man
54. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men
55. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 41. How to oppose sinister fate.
56. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 37. A counsell to one oppressed with bondage, and cruell disasters
57. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 30. That the setled quiet of our mind ought not to be moved at sinister accidents
58. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 31. To a rich man, become poore
59. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 26. Consolation to a poore man
60. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 39. That the impudicity of a Lascivious Woman staines but her owne, and not her hus∣bands honour
61. 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
62. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 27. The bad returnes of ingrate men should not deterre us from being liberall
63. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse
64. 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
65. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men
66. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 10. That a contented man is rich, how litle wealth soever he have
67. 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
68. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
69. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious
70. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague
71. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
72. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 33. That there is no true riches, but of necessary things
73. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 20. How we should enjoy the delights, we have: and contemne such, as we have not
74. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited
75. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 29. The firme, and determinate resolution of a couragious spirit, in the deepest calamities, inflicted by sinister fate
76. 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
77. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher
78. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 37. The advantages of Povertie
79. 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
80. 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
81. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
82. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 38. The truest wealth, man hath it from himselfe
83. 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
84. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
85. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
86. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 36. The different fruits of idlenesse, and vertue in young men
87. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
88. 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
89. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
90. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 2. That no man, to speake properly, liveth, but he, that is Wise, and vertuous
91. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
92. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches
93. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them
94. 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
95. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 32. That all our life, is but a continuall course, and vicissitude of sinning, and being sorry for sinne
96. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 40. The duty of a husband to his wife
97. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the per∣fectioning of the very same qualitie, wee are proudest of
98. 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
99. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 21. Death maketh us all alike in so farre, as her power can reach
100. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
101. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
102. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 22. A Counsell to be provident, and circumspect in all our actions, without either cowardise, or temeritie
103. 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
104. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 27. Of Lust, and Anger
105. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 43. In how farre men are inferiour to many other living creatures, in the faculties of the exteriour senses
106. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 1. No crosse adventure should hinder vs from being good; though we be frustrate of the reward thereof
107. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
108. 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
109. 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
110. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 39. When a true friend may be best knowne
111. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
112. 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
113. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 16. How a man should oppose adversitie
114. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 35. To a Gentleman, who was extreamly offen∣ded at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor
115. 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
116. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
117. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue
118. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
119. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 12. An vprightly zealous, and truly devout man is strong enough against all temptations
120. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
121. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
122. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 18. Not time, but our actions, are the true measure of our life
123. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
124. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe
125. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
126. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye
127. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
128. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 35. Wherein true Wealth consists
129. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
130. 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
131. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue

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