Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 3. A brave spirit disdaineth the threats of Fortune

No man of resolution, will endure 
	His liberty in Fortunes hands to thrall; 
For he’s not free, o’r whom she hath least pow’r: 
	But over whom she hath no pow’r at all: 
Nor hath she any chaine, wherewith to bind, 
The inclination of a noble mind.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence

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