Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 4. That Lust, and drunkennesse are odious vices

Wrath makes a man to sin couragiously,
And pride doth swell with faire appearances:
Page  41 But drunkenesse, and too much Leacherie
Are sloven, filthie, villanous, and base;
For by the one Gods image being exil'd,
His Temple by the other is defil'd.

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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