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A64606 Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight. Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660. 1641 (1641) Wing U135; ESTC R7441 21,116 70

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EPIGRAMS DIVINE AND MORAL BY Sir THOMAS VRCHARD Knight LONDON Printed by BARNARD ALSOP and THOMAS FAVVCET in the Yeare 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE IAMES LORD MARQVIS OF Hamilton Earle of Arren and Cambridge Lord Baron of Even and Innerdale Lord Master of his Majesties Horses Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable privie Counsell in both Kingdomes c. MY LORD BEing confident that your gracious disposition will hold in greater account the ingenuous meaning of who gives then the sufficiency of the present I here tender to the favour of your Honours acceptance a bundle of Epigrams Which though they be but flashes of wit and such as may with advantage receive point from your ordinary conceptions yet for that nothing doth better recommend them then vivacitie of conce●t I cannot figure to my fancie a fitter Patron to protect the sublimest Poems of this Nature then your owne Noble selfe of whose valour and prudence even from your infancie both this and forraine Nations will afford an approbation so Authentick that by the universall consent of all that ever knew your Lordship the depth of experience since the memory of man was never seene wedded to fewer yeares nor the splendor of heroicke vertue to the astonishment of whole Armies and Princes Palaces more evidently apparent then in the magnanimity of your generous carriage What formerly by the most vertuous and pregnant wits could not bee acquired without a long continuance of time and was esteemed to be incompatible with youth and much more extraordinary in young gallants then gray haires or the Gout hath beene still in your Lordship a quality concomitant to the source of all your actions coaevall with the gentile powers of your mind and no lesse naturall then to speake or thinke And what others not being able to reach into have therefore admired in the Legend of the Worthies hath since the yeares of discretion bin the constant Object of your dailie exercise and complyed with your very most neglected cogitations Which glorious and rare endowments out-reaching the extent of vulgar goodnesse and seeming the more wonderfull that it is not long since by your birth you did grace the World with the honour of your presence doe possesse the faculties of my soule with a stedfast resolution so unfainedly to acknowledge the absolute right your Lordship hath over me and the inclinations of my mind that as I cannot impart that portion of the fruits thereof to any which by a prior disposition is not already yours so may not I though the matter be but small without breach of duty devote this Dedication to another Therefore my Lord you may be pleased according to your accustomed manner to vouchsafe a courteous entertainment to this testimony of my regard till Fortune be so favourable as to blesse me with the opportunity one day to make knowne my designments more effectually yours for the best of my affections being touched with the Magnetick vertue of your good parts are fixed on you as on their Pol-estar which serveth to direct the course of my life in a continuall progresse of embracing all the occasions whereby I may testifie how earnest I am and alwayes shall be deservingly to obtaine the title Of Yours My Lord in all humilitie of sincere respect to serve your Lordship Thomas Vrchard EPIGRAMS THE FIRST BOOKE TO the KING GReat Monarch since the worlds nativity No mind nor body had so divine parts To grace the State of Sov'rain Majesty As hath your Royall person whose deserts Soare higher 'bove the reach of other Kings Then the bright Sun transcends terrestriall things 2. That those of a solid wit cannot be puffed vp with applause nor incensed by contumelie WHat vulgar people speake if we be wise Will neither joy nor miscontentment breed us For we ought mens opinions so to prise As that they may attend us and not lead us It not being fit their praise should rule our actions Or that we shun what 's good for their detractions 3 A brave spirit disdaineth the threats of Fortune NO man of resolution will endure His liberty in Fortunes hands to thrall For he 's not free o'r whom she hath least pow'r But over whom she hath no pow'r at all Nor hath she any chaine wherewith to bind The inclination of a noble mind 4. How to become wise WHo would be truly wise must in all haste His mind of perturbations dispossesse For wisedome is a large and spatious guhest And can not dwell but in an empty place Therefore to harbour her we must not grudge To make both vice and passion to dislodge 5. The wise and noble resolution of a truly couragious and devout spirit towards the absolute danting of those irregular affections and inward perturbations which readily might happen to impede the current of his sanctified designes and oppose his already initiated progresse in the divinely proposed course of a vertuous and holy life MY soule shall rule my body raigne o'r it And curb the Pentarchie of sensuall charmes For though they live togither 't is not fit They be compagnons upon equall termes But in my mind J'l harbour such a reason As strongly may o'rmaster each temptation Can be suggested to 't and choake the Treason Of all and ev'ry will-betraying passion In this judicious order the Realme Or little world of mine owne selfe to guide It is my whole intent till J make calme Rebellious motions and suppresse the pride Of flesh then while J breath maintaine that right In spight of Satan and all worldly might 6. That the fellowship of vertuous or vicious people contributes much to the bettering or depraving of the mind THat he must needs be bad there is some likenesse Who to lewd company is much affected For it is the beginning of a sicknesse T' associat with him that is infected Would you be good then haunt the conversation Of them whose actions merit estimation 7. Riches without further can make no man happy AS he whose body is not well in health To search for ease from bed to bed will rise So to a mind that is diseased wealth Is not the end but change of miseries And that which made his poverty to vexe him Will make his riches likewise to perplexe him 8. What man it is that is truly wealthie WHo measures poverty by Natures rules And frames his mind to what he hath is rich For we can never doe but vexe our soules So long's we straine them to a higher pitch And hee whose heart is discontented is But a poore wretch though all the world were his 9. How a valiant was ought to behave himselfe towards those that basely offer to offend him HEE is beyond the reach of common men Who can despise an injury for as The billowes of the Sea insult in vaine Against a Rocke a stout breast finds no cause Of being commov'd at wrongs whereof the Dart Resiles from him as from a brasen