English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

A Fly, which is a despicable creature
Obtaines, beside her wings, six feet from Nature:
Yet foure feet onely, she is pleas'd to grant
To the huge body of an Elephant:
So Fortune doth withdraw her gifts from some,
Whose real worth surpasseth theirs, on whom
She hath bestowed them, as forcibly,
As Elephants in strenth exceed a fly.

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. № 37. The advantages of Povertie
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue

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