Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 2. That those of a solid wit, cannot be puffed vp with applause; nor incensed by contumelie

What vulgar people speake (if we be wise) 
	Will neither joy, nor miscontentment breed us; 
For we ought mens opinions so to prise: 
	As that they may attend us, and not lead us, 
It not being fit their praise should rule our actions: 
Or that we shun what’s good for their detractions.

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 First Booke. ¹ 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited

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