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Poem by Thomas Urquhart
Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man, most patient in his sicknesse
MY flesh still having beene an enemy
Unto my spirit, it should glad my heart,
That paines, which seize now on my body, may
Be profitable to my better part;
For though Diseases seeme at first unpleasant,
They point us out the way, we ought to goe:
Admonish us exactly of our present
Estate: and t'us at last this favour shew,
That they enlarge us from that ruinous,
Close, and darke prison, which confined us.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart's other poems:- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
- Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
- Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
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