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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 20. Of Negative, and Positive good


NOT onely are they good, who vertuously,
Employ their time (now vertue being so rare)
But likewise those, whom no necessity,
Nor force can in the meanest vice insnare;
For sin's so mainly further'd by the Devill,
That 'tis a sort of good, to doe no evill.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 1. No crosse adventure should hinder vs from being good; though we be frustrate of the reward thereof
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 40. The duty of a husband to his wife
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion


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