Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 15. To one of a great memory, but depraved life

Though many things your memory containe: 
	If by your mind, to matters it be led, 
Which are lesse profitable to retaine, 
	Then to commit t’oblivion, it is bad: 
And whatsoever arts it comprehend: 
	If it remember not on piety: 
Repentance for enormous sins: the end 
	Of life, Gods judgements, and his clemencie; 
Those necessary precepts while you lake, 
You but forget your selfe: and it is weake.

1. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 3. The couragious resolution of a valiant man
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 17. VVhy we must all dye
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches

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