Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men

AS is the Tortoise used by the Eagle:
So fortune doth vaine-glorious men inveagle;
Who carries them upon the wings of honour
The higher up, that they may breake the sooner.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
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 Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account

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