Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men

AS is the Tortoise used by the Eagle:
So fortune doth vaine-glorious men inveagle;
Who carries them upon the wings of honour
The higher up, that they may breake the sooner.

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 Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited

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