Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 8. What sort of benefits one ought to bestow

VVOuld you oblige to you a friend, by giving,
Most cheerfully your favours to acquite:
Give that, which gives content in the receiving:
And when it is received yeelds delight;
For if it faile in either of those two,
It will impaire his thankfulnesse to you.

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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