English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile

STrive, never by constraint to crosse his will,
Whose best affection fairely may be had;
The noble mind of man being such, as still
Follow's more heartily, then it is led:
For there was never power, charme, nor Art,
That could without consent, obtaine the heart.

Thomas Urquhart’s other poems:

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account

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