Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 20. Of Negative, and Positive good

NOT onely are they good, who vertuously,
Employ their time (now vertue being so rare)
But likewise those, whom no necessity,
Nor force can in the meanest vice insnare;
For sin's so mainly further'd by the Devill,
That 'tis a sort of good, to doe no evill.

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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