Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 17. VVhy we must all dye

IT being the law of Nations to restore
What we have borrow'd, ther's no remedy:
But being engaged to a Creditor,
Who will not lose his debt: we must needs dye:
Nor can we plead one halfe a termes delay;
For when Death craves it, we are forc'd to pay.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone, and with a good will
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie

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