English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 19. What is not vertuously acquired, if acquired by vs, is not properly ours. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 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 plea∣sure:
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.

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 Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 26. Consolation to a poore man

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