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.

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 Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 28. That vertue is better, and more powerfull then Fortune

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