Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits

VErtue, not blood was thought of anciently;
Yet blood, more then our vertue ought to please us:
For we on blood, not vertue should rely;
Not on our vertue: but the blood of Iesus,
His blood being able to make heavenly Kings;
Of men, plagu'd here for lacke of Earthly things.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 9. To one, who did glory too much in the faire, and durable fabrick of a gorgious Palace, which he had caused lately to be built
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

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