Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye


IT being the law of Nations to restore
What we have borrow'd, ther's no remedy:
But being engaged to a Creditor,
Who will not lose his debt: we must needs dye:
Nor can we plead one halfe a termes delay;
For when Death craves it, we are forc'd to pay.






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