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Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight.
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Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.
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1641
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None of a little burthen should complaine You 're cloth'd with flesh and bones and not supprest A little house a Gyant may containe And little bulks great spirits oft invest For vertue hath not such desire to find The stature of the body as the mind 25. That too much bewailing and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals to one lamenting the decease of a friend IT were more fit that you relinquish'd orrow Then that you should be left by it that may What ever may be done be done to morrow And what to morrow may be done to day We should therefore as soon's we can desist From that wherein we cannot long insist 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 27. We should not be sorry to be destitute of any thing so long as we have judgments to perswade vs that we may minister to our selves what we have not by not longing for it TO want what J should have shall never make My heart lesse cheerfull reason still requiring That J be pleas'd what 's ' ever things J lacke To furnish to my selfe by not desiring For not to wish for things against the griefe Of feare and frustrate hopes provides reliefe 28. That vertue is better and more powerfull then Fortune VErtue denyeth nought but what to grant Hurts the receiver and is good to want Nor takes she ought away which would not crosse The owner and is lucrative to losse She no man can deceive she lookes not strange Nor is she subject to the meanest change Embrace her then for she can give that which Will without gold or silver make you rich 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 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 30. That nothing more opposeth the tranquillity of life which is proper and peculiar to Wise-men then to be tyed to a generality of publicke example in all our actions AMongst the causes of our evils this Is one of the most ordinary that We live b'example things which are amisse Supplying oftentimes the place of what Is rightest and most vertuous for there 's no man Scarce holds that error which is done in cōmon 31. A temperate Dyet is the best Physicke TO keepe a moderation in our Dyet Is the chiefe meane to be of health assured For nothing sickens so as too much ryot And Feasts kill more then Galen ever cured Nor is ther Physicke should so fully please us Others expell but this prveens Diseases 32. That all our life is but a continuall course and vicissitude of sinning and being sorry for sinne WE sinne with joy and having fin'd we mourn Then kindle after teares new sinfull fires There being a turne perpetuall and returne 'Twixt our repentance and profane desires For senses to delights are wedded wholly Which purchas'd reason doth bewaile their folly 33. Why our thoughts all the while we are in this transitory world from the houre of our nativity to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction SEeing the strait lodging of your mothers wombe Brought you to life from whence you must depart To the darke entry of a little tombe Betwixt your birth and Buriall let your heart Tread vertues narrow path till you contract To so strict bounds the pleasures of this wide And spacious world as that you may draw backe The reines of covetous desire hate lust and pride For by so doing you will make your death A blessed passage to eternall breath 34. It is the safest course to entertaine poverty in our greatest riches YOur thoughts in greatest plentie moderate Lest with superfluous things you be insnared Let poverty be your familiar Mate That Fortune may not find you unprepared For so it will not lye into her pow'r T' inflict that crosse which you cannot endure 35. To a Gentleman who was extreamly offended at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor AT his reproachfull words doe not conceive The meanest grudge for curs will still be barking Nor take you notice of him seeing a knave Is like a scabbed sheepe not worth the marking And this your setting him at nought will make him Swell as a Toad till his owne poyson breake him 36. Of Death and Sin Bodies which lack the soules did them inform Turn'd to corruption lose their former grace And out of hearts corrupted breeds a worme Still gnawing upon guilty Consciences As from deceased bodies Death withdrawes The living soules another life t' enjoy So sinne contrary to the divine Lawes In living bodies doth the soule destroy Death is not vanquish'd till the Resurrection Of bodies testifie the soules conjunction And by Regeneration sin's infection Is buri'd in a mortifi'd compunction Lesse then is death then sinne the tomb then hell The more that soules the bodies doe excell 37. The advantages of Povertie IF you have povertie you have no sumptuous But a most easie ghuest secure and quiet Who will preserve your mind from being presumptuous From prodigality excessive ryot From vicious pleasures Robbers and the stealth Of theeves which ills befall to those have wealth 38. How to make all the world peaceable IF so in ev'ry man the flesh would dwell At concord with the spirit that it cease Against its soverainty to rebell The universall world would be at peace For if there were no avarice no hate No pride nor lust there could be no debate 39. One who did extreamly regret his bestowing of a great benefit vpon an ingrate man BY giving moneyes to a thanklesse man You lost the matter of your benefit But the best part thereof doth still remaine Which was your willingnesse in giving it For his repaying of your gratefull action Had made you gaine all that you had received And getting nought you lacke not satisfaction It onely being to give it that you gave it Else in your gifts a bargaine we should find And not the noble acts of a free mind 40. Of wisedome in speech in action in reality and reputation WIsely to talke deserveth much respect Yet to live wisely without doubt is better To be accounted wise is a great matter But it is most to be it in effect Such as would follow wisedome then let them Strive more for deeds then words for
life then fame 41. To one who was grieved within himselfe that he was not endewed with such force and vigour of body as many others were THough you be not so strong as other men Jf you have health the matter is but small You being reserv'd for tasks more noble then The labours of the body therefore all You can complaine of is not of defect But of imparitie Nature did grant Milo great strength in whose regard you 're weake So was he weaker then an Elephant His strength decay'd but Solons lasted longer And wise men love not what 's not durable Care not for strength seeing sicknesse will be stronger But with your soule as with a Sword of steele Within a sheath of Wooll subdue temptations For the true strength of Man being in the mind He is much stronger overcomes his passions Then who can with main force a Lyon bind And who himselfe thus in subjection brings Surmounts the power of all Earthly Kings 42. An encouragement to those of meane Parentage not to be hindered by the Obscurity of their extraction from the undertaking of glorious enterprises THe baser that your Parents are the greater Renowne and honour will to you redound Jf all your actions be on vertue grounded To give being more then to receive and better To have a noble life then birth to found A new Nobility then find it founded 43. We should not be troubled at the accidents of Fortune nor those things which cannot be eschewed LEt 's take in patience sicknesse banishments Paine losse of goods death and enforced strife For none of those are so much punishments As Tributes which we pay unto this life From the whole tract whereof we cannot borrow One dram of Joy that is not mix'd with sorrow 44. Age meerly depending on the continuall Flux of time we have very small reason to boast of a long life already obtained or be proud of the hope hereafter to attaine unto it THe present time doth fly away so fast That one can hardly follow 't with his mind The Praeterit's a time already past And seeing the futur 's still to come we find Both those being absent that they are not ours Although they breed to us no meane vexation Th' one with the slip'ry thought of ill-spent houres And th' other with a carefull expectation Thus life is almost nothing in effect Whereof two parcels never are our owne The third being such as e'r we can reflect Upon th' enjoying of it is quite gone The longest time not having bounds to measure A reall permanent and solid pleasure Here end the first three Bookes of Sir THOMAS VRCHARDS Epigrams Laud to the Father with the Son and Ghost TRIUN as fore And still hath beene since times begun be now and evermore The Errata's Page 2. line 6. for place a p. 4. l. 14. at Dart blot out l. 22. for place a p. 5. l. 7. for find read find p. 7. l. 3. for misadventure read misadventures l. 6. at with place a and at face a p. 8. l. 11. at law place a p. 12. l. 25. at doe place a at ought a p. 13. l. 6. and 7. must be indented p. 21. l. 7. at estates place a l. 19. before at all read lived p. 31. l. 1. for guideth read giveth l. 22 for place a line 23 blot out the p. 35. line 16. for u read us and place there a page 36. l. 5. for skll reed skill page 40. line 6 at death place a l. 17. for place a THE Printers to the Reader THough in none of the printed Copies be all those above collected faults yet the Forme in severall sheets happening to passe divers times the Presse before an exact Revise was made many of the Bookes are found to containe some as the whole impression them all therefore thought we fit for the ease of the more curious in every penult page to subjoyne them as they are here sum'd up willing rather to insert the totall where the parts are wanting in their distinguish't places then by omitting any thing of the due count to let an errour slip uncorrected What else hath escaped our animadversion we heartily intreat the courteous and judicious Readers to excuse and amend and humbly beg their favours they may be pleased to vouchsafe an acceptance of these our endeavours with the same intention we have offered them the furtherance of the common good and satisfaction of every one in particular being all wee aime at our chiefe ambition and the most approved Testimony which our consciences affoord us in the discharge of our calling FINIS Imprimatur JOHANNES HANSLEY March 15. 1640.