Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited

VVHat grievous weight so ever be allowed
By misadventrous fate, wherewith to load ye,
Page  52 Shrinke not thereat, but yeeld your shoulder to it,
And with a stedfast mind support your body;
For valiant spirits can not be o'rcome:
Though Fortune force their bodies to succumbe.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 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. ¹ 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 16. How a man should oppose adversitie

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