Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 39. One, who did extreamly regret, his bestowing of a great benefit vpon an ingrate man

BY giving moneyes to a thanklesse man,
You lost the matter of your benefit:
Page  57 But the best part thereof doth still remaine,
Which was your willingnesse in giving it;
For his repaying of your gratefull action,
Had made you gaine all, that you had received
And getting nought, you lacke not satisfaction;
It onely being, to give it, that you gave it;
Else in your gifts, a bargaine we should find:
And not the noble acts of a free mind.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 16. How a man should oppose adversitie

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