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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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can be none so poore As he whose mind in plentie longs for more 17 How generous a thing it is not to succumbe to pleasure and sensualitie NO great exploit can be expected from That man who being profoundly plung'd in his Owne sense permits himselfe to be o'rcome B' a foe s'effeminat as pleasure is For mightie minds most pleasures doe conceive When pleasures over them no power have 18 That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods THose things which are to us by fortune lent We Should sequestrat and to such a place From whence she may without our discontent Fetch them away againe before our face For if we grudge thereat by any meanes We doe but vexe our selves and lose our paines 19. What is not vertuously acquired if acquired by vs is not properly ours WHos'ever by sinister meanes is come To places of preferment and to walke Within the bounds of vertue takes no pleasure Provideth onely titles for his tombe And for the baser people pratling talke But nothing for himselfe in any measure For fortune doth with all things us befit Save the sole mind of ours and Vice kils it 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon then povertie can doe FOr Temperance and other qualities Of greater moment men have beene respected In riches but in poverty there is This onely goodnesse not to be dejected Whence shunning want we means embrace which yeeld To vertue a more large and spacious field 21. Death maketh us all alike in so farre as her power can reach 'MOngst all the rites that Nature can pretend In Justice this is chiefest and a sequell Which doth on Mortall principles depend That drawing neare to death we are all equall Therefore we otherwise then by the sense Should betwixt man and man make difference 22 A very ready way to goodnesse and true VVisedome Who vertuously would settle his endeavours To mortifie his passions and be wise Must still remember on received favours Forgetting alwaies by-past injuries For that a friend should prove ingrate is strange And mercy is more Noble then revenge 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies and calumnies of Lyars and profane men ASpersions which base people viciously Inflict upon mens credits I contemne That sentence having small authoritie Where he that is condemned doth condemne And to be hated by a wicked spirit Doth argue oftentimes the greater merit 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth LEt none be proud of life nor thinke that longer He then another will because he 's younger Enjoy his pleasures for though old age stand A great way off death alwaies is at hand Who without taking heed to time or yeares No Living creature spares when she appeares 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 26 Consolation to a poore man THat you are poore it should not much disheart you For povertie securely keepes your house From theeves Robbers and makes roome to vertue By banishing of pride and the abuse Of riches the losse thereof and feare of losse Surfets and vices that prejudge the health Which being shut out of doores strive to compose Your mind to quietnesse more worth then wealth For without wealth you may have happinesse But not without tranquillitie and ease 27 The bad returnes of ingrate men should not deterre us from being liberall THough you ingrate receivers dayly find Let not their faults make you lesse Noble prove It not being th' action of a gen'rous mind To give and lose so as to lose and give For that a churle may doe in hope of gaine But this partakes of a heroick straine 28 That riches is a sicknesse to those that doe not possesse the good thereof so much as they are possest thereby Some peoples senses wealth doth so bereave That they to nothingelse their minds can frame So have they wealth as men are said to have The Ague when 't is th' ague that hath them For it afflicts them with the maladies Of covetous desire and avarice 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts in hope of recompence A Hearty giver will conceive such pleasure In th' onely action of his good intent That though he be not met in the like measure It never breeds him any discontent For when he doth bestow a benefit He meerely lookes to the receivers profit And in the instant that he guideth it Reapes all the vse that he exspected of it Vertue no other recompence allowing The price of honest deeds being in the doing 30 That the setled quiet of our mind ought not to be moved at sinister accidents MAn should for no infortunate event Deprive himselfe of that which fortune is Vnable to restore him the content Of mind ease and tranquilsity of his Reposed spirit for who lacketh those Can nothing else possesse that 's worth to lose 31. As it was a precept of antiquity to leane more to vertue then Parentage so is it a tenet of Christianity to repose more trust on the blood of Christ then our owne merits VErtue not blood was thought of anciently Yet blood more then our vertue ought to please us For we on blood not vertue should rely Not on our vertue but the blood of Iesus His blood being able to make heavenly Kings Of men plagu'd here for lacke of Earthly things 32 Our inclination is so depraved that it is apt enough of it selfe to runne to sin without any instigation whereby to drive it forward OUr mind 's so prone to vice it needs a bridle To hold it rather then a spurre to prick it For left unto it selfe it hardly stands But if perverse enticements find it idle And push it then it runing on a wicked And headlong course no reason understands While at the windows of the eares and eyes Temptations enter which the soule surprise 33 That there is no true riches but of necessary things THe use of mony is to have the meanes Whereby all needfull things may be possess'd Which are but few and small got with ease What we have more then that ' snot wealth but chains Or Fetters of the mind and at the best But heapes of labour feare and carefulnesse 34. The misery of such as are doubtfull and suspicious of their VVives chastitie CLose Jealous men make not so evident In any thing the madnesse of their braines As that the more that they are diligent They have the greater hope to lose their paines For their whole care to search that is imployed Which not to find they would be overjoyed 35. How deplorable the condition of most men is who though they attaine to the fruition of their praeterit projects by