Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it

IT would not be an universall cace,
Nor could each man have so true cause to fall
In rayling 'gainst ingratitude; unlesse
There were some reason to complaine of all:
Thus, who have with unthankfulnesse beene met,
May from such dealing this instruction draw,
That if themselves did ever prove ingrate,
They get but justice from the Talion-Law,
To th'end they may from those their faults refraine,
Which they so ugly see in other men.

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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