Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches

IF men deservedly speake ill of you,
Be angry not at them: but at the cause,
Which you to them did furnish so to doe:
But if they still continue 'gainst the Lawes.

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 First Booke. ¹ 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
5. 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

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