Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend

IT were more fit, that you relinquish'd orrow,
Then that you should be left by it; that may,
Page  50 What ever may be done, be done to morrow:
And what to morrow may be done to day;
We should therefore, as soon's we can desist
From that, wherein we cannot long insist.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 6. To one, whom poverty was to be wished for, in so farre, as he could hardly otherwise be restrained from excessive ryot, and feasting

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