Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 25. That vertue is of greater worth, then knowledge. to a speculative Philosopher

WHy doe you study Morals, if you take
No paines t'abate your avarice, and lust?
For how can vertues definition make
You valiant, prudent, temperate, or just:
Jf you industriously purge not your mind
Of any vice, to which you are inclin'd?

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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