English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 24. A consolation to those, that are of a little stature not to be sorry thereat. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 24. A consolation to those, that are of a little stature not to be sorry thereat

None of a little burthen should complaine;
You're cloth'd with flesh, and bones, and not supprest:
A little house a Gyant may containe:
And little bulks great spirits oft invest;
For vertue hath not such desire to find
The stature of the body, as the mind.

Thomas Urquhart’s other poems:

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 37. The advantages of Povertie
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue

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