Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 10. The best wits, once depraved, become the most impious

THe whitest Lawne receives the deepest moale:
The purest Chrysolit is soonest stained:
So without grace, the most ingenious soule,
Is with the greatest wickednesse profaned:
And the more edge it have, apply'd to sin,
Where it should spare, it cuts the deeper in.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile

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