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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account


LEt the discourse be serious, you impart,
To the grave audience of judicious eares:
Being either of the common-wealth, some art,
Or science, on your owne, or friendes affaires;
For if it can to none of those pertaine:
It must be idle, frivolous, and vaine.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
  3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth


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