Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other


AS Death o'rthroweth man, and cuts his breath:
And fame most gloriously subdueth Death:
So gourmandizing time doth fame or'come:
And to eternity time must succumbe.






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