English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 25. That too much bewailing, and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals, to one lamenting the decease of a friend

IT were more fit, that you relinquish'd orrow,
Then that you should be left by it; that may,
Page  50 What ever may be done, be done to morrow:
And what to morrow may be done to day;
We should therefore, as soon's we can desist
From that, wherein we cannot long insist.

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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