Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 20. How we should enjoy the delights, we have: and contemne such, as we have not

LEt not the want of pleasures be unpleasant
To your remembrance: and with moderation
Make use of those contentments, which are present:
If you would ne'r be griev'd with expectation;
For to our owne, things absent to preferre,
Frustrates our hope, when it hath bred us feare.