Томас Эркарт (Thomas Urquhart)

Эпиграммы. Книга I. № 21. Строки, обращённые к тому, кто оплакивает смерть ближнего

Рыдая об ушедшем навсегда,
	Причину смерти называя в горе,
Ты говоришь: «Преклонные года»,
	Ты утверждаешь: «Одолели хвори», –
Но ты неправ: он умер потому,
Что жить на свете довелось ему. 

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4.06.2007
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Epigrams. The First Booke. № 21. To one bewailing the death of another

You have no cause to thinke it strange, that he 
		Hath yeelded up his last, and fatall breath; 
For ’tis no wonder for a man to dye, 
	Whose life is but a journey into Death: 
Nor is there any man of life deprived 
For age, or sicknesse: but because he lived.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 7. To one, who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 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
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend

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