Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

A Fly, which is a despicable creature
Obtaines, beside her wings, six feet from Nature:
Yet foure feet onely, she is pleas'd to grant
To the huge body of an Elephant:
So Fortune doth withdraw her gifts from some,
Whose real worth surpasseth theirs, on whom
She hath bestowed them, as forcibly,
As Elephants in strenth exceed a fly.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 34. It is the safest course to entertaine poverty in our greatest riches
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours

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