Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious

THe whitest Lawne receives the deepest moale:
The purest Chrysolit is soonest stained:
So without grace, the most ingenious soule,
Is with the greatest wickednesse profaned:
And the more edge it have, apply'd to sin,
Where it should spare, it cuts the deeper in.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 1. No crosse adventure should hinder vs from being good; though we be frustrate of the reward thereof
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague

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