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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


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


YOu should not be a whit the more dejected,
That (as in former times) not being sustain'd,
Your fare, and dyet daily doe decrease;
For want doing what your modestie neglected:
It is a happy thing to be constrain'd
To that, which willingly you ought t'embrace.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 22. A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue


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