Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend

IT were more fit, that you relinquish'd orrow,
Then that you should be left by it; that may,
Page  50 What ever may be done, be done to morrow:
And what to morrow may be done to day;
We should therefore, as soon's we can desist
From that, wherein we cannot long insist.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 40. The duty of a husband to his wife
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 16. How a man should oppose adversitie
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 8. What sort of benefits one ought to bestow
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand

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