English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 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.

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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