Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)
Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
HOw can such wedded people lead their lives,
With a respect unfainedly entire,
Where husbands are not married to their wives:
But money to the covetous desire:
Where men in little estimation hold
Womens discretion, wit, and chastitie:
But meerely aime at handsomnesse, and gold,
To serve their avarice, and Leacherie:
Which fashion lately is become so common,
That first, w'espouse the money: then, the woman.
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 15. To one, who was excessively cheerefull, for being recovered of a Fever, wherewith he had beene for a time extreame sorely sha∣ken
- Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
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